Odonata

Odonata Temporal range: Early Permian–Recent[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Tau emerald (Hemicordulia tau) deil's needle
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Cless:	Insecta
Subcless:	Pterygota
Diveesion:	Palaeoptera
Superorder:	Odonatoptera
(unranked):	Holodonata
Order:	Odonata Fabricius, 1793[2]
Suborders
Epiprocta (deil's needles) Zygoptera (damselflees)

Odonata is an order o carnivorous insects, encompassin the deil's needles (or draigonflees, Anisoptera) an the damselflees (Zygoptera).

1. ↑ Hoell, H.V., Doyen, J.T. & Purcell, A.H. (1998). Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-510033-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
2. ↑ Fabricius, Johann Christian (1793). Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus (in Latin). Hafniae : impensis Christ. Gottl. Proft. pp. 519 [373]. doi:10.3931/e-rara-26792 – via e-rara.ch.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)