Congqingia rhora

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cephalozygoptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Superordo: Odonatoptera Ordo: Odonata Subordo: †Cephalozygoptera

Superfamilia:"Sieblosioid Group"
Familia: †Dysagrionidae
Subfamilia: †Petrolestinae
Genera: †Congqingia
Species: †Congqingia rhora

Name

• Congqingia rhora Zhang, 1992

Type material

• Holotype: L88758-L88759
  • Repository: Shandong Museum, Lixia District, Jinan, Shandong, China
    • Collected: 1989 by Jun-Feng Zhang

Type locality

• Early Cretaceous, Aptian; Laiyang Formation, near Nanligezhuang Village, Laiyang City, Shandong Province, China

Etymology

• "From the Greek rhoros - "strong" "

Distribution

Cretaceous

• Aptian
  • Laiyang Formation, near Nanligezhuang Village, Laiyang City, Shandong Province, China

References

Primary references

• Zhang, J-F. 1992. Congqingia rhora gen. nov., spec. nov. - A new dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic of Eastern China (Anisozygoptera: Congqingiidae fam. nov.). Odonatologica 21(3): 375-383. https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/592005/OJIOS1992021003013.pdf. 
• Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Ware J.; Simonsen T.J.; Rasmussen J.A.; Archibald S.B. 2025. Systematics of the extinct suborder Cephalozygoptera (Odonata): a wing-based analysis comparing its genera with those of extant Zygoptera. American Museum Novitates 4043: 1–19.