page_title: Stenophlebiidae
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Stenophlebiidae / Classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Cratostenophlebia schwickerti (Odonata: Stenophlebiidae), Lower Cretaceous, Crato Formation, Brazil, female allotype WDC 137
context_page_description: The Stenophlebiidae is an extinct family of medium-sized to large fossil odonates from the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous period that belongs to the damsel-dragonfly grade within the stem group of Anisoptera. They are characterized by their long and slender wings, and the transverse shape of the discoidal triangles in their wing venation.
context_section_description: The family group taxon was established by Needham (1903) as subfamily Stenophlebinae (sic) of the extinct damsel-dragonfly family Heterophlebiidae. It was emended and elevated to family rank Stenophlebiidae by Handlirsch (1906). Stenophlebia Hagen, 1866 is the type genus of this family.
  The species Sinostenophlebia zhanjiakouensis was originally assigned to the family Stenophlebiidae; however, the position and status of this species is very uncertain due to the poor preservation and insufficient original description. Zheng et al. (2016) transferred this species to the family Aeschnidiidae, and considered the genus Sinostenophlebia to be a likely junior synonym of the genus Leptaeschnidium.
  Bechly (2005) could show that the very small species "Stenophlebia" casta from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk of Germany is not related to Stenophlebiidae. It is now classified as Parastenophlebia casta in a separate family Parastenophlebiidae that belongs to the extinct damsel-dragonfly suborder Heterophlebioptera.
  The family contains 9 described genera with totally 18 species:
  Genus †Stenophlebia Hagen, 1866 (type genus)
  †Stenophlebia amphitrite (Hagen, 1862) - (type species; type locality: Eichstätt, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Malm zeta 2b, Lower Tithonian / 150 mya, Hybonotum Zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation; lectotype: no. AS I 1025a,b at BSPG Munich Museum; size: forewing 83.4 and hindwing 81.1 mm)
  †Stenophlebia? corami Nel and Jarzembowski, 1996 - (type locality: National Grid Reference SZ 038784, Swanage, Durlston Bay, Dorset, England; type horizon: Lower Cretaceous, Earliest Berriasian / 145 mya, Clement’s Bed 175, Corbula Beds / Middle Purbeck Beds, Durlston Formation; holotype: costo-median part of a wing no. 018957/-8 in coll. Robert Coram; estimated size: wing 55.0 mm)
  †Stenophlebia eichstaettensis Nel et al., 1993 - (type locality: Eichstätt, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Malm zeta 2b, Lower Tithonian / 150 mya, Hybonotum Zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation; holotype: no. SOS 2329 at Jura-Museum Eichstätt; size: forewing 69.0 and hindwing 69.0 mm)
  †Stenophlebia karatavica Pritykina, 1968 - (type locality: Karatau-Mikhailovka, Chimkent region, Southern Kazakhstan; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Callovian- Kimmeridgian or Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian / 163 mya, Karabastau Formation; holotype: no. PIN 2066/26 at Palaeontological Institute Moscow; size: forewing 48.0 mm)
  †Stenophlebia latreillei (Germar, 1839) - (type locality: Eichstätt, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Malm zeta 2b, Lower Tithonian / 150 mya, Hybonotum Zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation; lectotype: no. 1870/VII/35 at BSPG Munich Museum; size: forewing 55.4 and hindwing 54.7 mm)
  †Stenophlebia liaoningensis Zheng et al. 2016- (Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China)
  †Stenophlebia? lithographica (Giebel, 1857) - (nomen dubium; type locality: Eichstätt, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Malm zeta 2b, Lower Tithonian / 150 mya, Hybonotum Zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation; holotype: at University of Heidelberg, probably lost; size: wings about 55 mm; maybe a synonym of S. phryne or S. latreillei)
  †Stenophlebia phryne (Hagen, 1862) - (type locality: Eichstätt, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Malm zeta 2b, Lower Tithonian / 150 mya, Hybonotum Zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation; lectotype: MCZ 6212 at Harvard University; size: forewing 55.0 mm)
  †Stenophlebia rolfhuggeri Bechly et al., 2003 - (type locality: Nusplingen quarry, Germany; type horizon: Upper Jurassic, Germany, Late Kimmeridgian / 152 mya, Beckeri Zone, Ulmense Subzone, unit C, Nusplingen Limestone Formation; holotype: no. SMNS 65217 at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart; size: forewing 80.0 and hindwing 76.0 mm)
  Genus †Burmastenophlebia Huang, Fu & Nel, 2019
  †Burmastenophlebia flecki Huang, Fu & Nel, 2019 - (Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Myanmar amber)
  Genus †Cratostenophlebia Bechly, 2007
  †Cratostenophlebia schwickert Bechly, 2007 - (type locality: Chapada do Araripe, vicinity of Nova Olinda, 
caption: Cratostenophlebia schwickerti, Lower Cretaceous, Brazil, female allotype
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