Odonatoptera

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The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera. The dragonflies and damselflies (which are placed in the subgroup Odonata) are the only living members of this group, which was far more diverse in the late Paleozoic and contained gigantic species, including the griffinflies (colloquially called "giant dragonflies", although they were not dragonflies in the strict sense) of the order Meganisoptera (formerly Protodonata). This lineage dates back at least to the Bashkirian, not quite 320 million years ago[2]

Odonatoptera
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous - Recent
Reconstruction of Carboniferous odonapteran Meganeurites (Meganeuridae, Meganisoptera)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Division: Palaeoptera
Superorder: Odonatoptera
Lameere, 1900[1]
Orders

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Synonyms

Campylopterodea Rohdendorf, 1962
Odonatoidea Lameere, 1936

Systematics and taxonomy

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There is little consensus about the relationships of the Odonatoptera. What is certain is that they are a clade of winged insects that stands outside the Neoptera. But various authors' analyses have yielded any one of three mutually exclusive phylogenies, or some variant thereof: The least problematic (in a taxonomic sense) view is that the Odonatoptera are the sister taxon of the Ephemeropteroidea (the mayfly lineage), and that the Palaeodictyopteroidea are either their sister taxon or a basal assemblage, all within a monophyletic Palaeoptera. But few recent analyses have supported this. Rather, it seems more and more likely that the Odonatoptera are the sister taxon of the Neoptera, making the "Palaeoptera" paraphyletic. The third view places the mayfly lineage as sister taxon of the neopterans, with the Odonatoptera as most primitive winged insects; it has seen little support in recent decades however.[3][4]

Phylogeny

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Based on the work of Günter Bechly,[5] Nel et al. (2001)[6] and Petrulevičius & Gutierrez (2016).[7]

Odonatoptera
Eugeroptera

Eugeropteridae

Palaeodonatoptera
Kukaloptera

Kirchneralidae

Plesiodonatoptera
Argentinoptera

Argentinalidae

Apodonatoptera
Geroptera

Geropteridae

Neodonataptera

Eomeganisoptera (†Erasipteridae)

Euodonatoptera

Meganisoptera (griffinflies)

Odonatoclada

?†Lapeyriidae

Campylopterodea

Campylopteridae

Nodialata

Protanisoptera

Pandiscoidalia

Triadotypomorpha

Discoidalia

Triadophlebiomorpha

Stigmoptera

Protozygoptera (including Archizygoptera)

Panodonata

In some treatments, the Odonata are expanded to include all these taxa with the exception of the "Erasipteridae", Geroptera and Protodonata; this group is treated as an unranked clade Odonatoclada in the scheme used here. Where the Odonata are defined loosely, the term Odonatoidea is used instead of "Odonatoptera" (see e.g. [2]).

Cladogram of Odonatoptera including Odonata by Deregnaucourt et al. 2023.[8]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Kluge, N.J. "Odonatoptera". Nomina circumscribentia insectorum. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b Trueman & Rowe (2008).
  3. ^ Maddison (2002).
  4. ^ Trueman (2008).
  5. ^ Bechly, Günter (27 November 2007). "Phylogenetic Systematics of Odonata". Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  6. ^ Nel, A.; Béthoux, O.; Bechly, G.; Martínez-Delclòs, X.; Papier, F. (2001). "The Permo-Triassic Odonatoptera of the 'protodonate' grade (Insecta: Odonatoptera)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 37 (4): 501–525. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  7. ^ Petrulevičius, Julián F.; Gutierrez, Pedro Raul (2016). "New basal Odonatoptera (Insecta) from the lower Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina". Arquivos Entomolóxicos (16): 341–358.
  8. ^ Deregnaucourt, Isabelle; Bardin, Jérémie; Villier, Loïc; Julliard, Romain; Béthoux, Olivier (August 2023). "Disparification and extinction trade-offs shaped the evolution of Permian to Jurassic Odonata". iScience. 26 (8): 107420. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.107420. PMC 10424082. PMID 37583549.

References

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