NOMEN: Odonatoptera Lameere 1900 [A. Lameere. Manuel de la faune de Belge. Tome II. Insectes inferieurs. – Bruxelles, 1900: 858 pp.]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Lameere 1900): Odonatopteres (in French)
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING (Zalessky 1932): Odonatoptera (in Latin)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Lameere
1900): Meganisoptera (=
"Protodonates") + Odonata s.str. (= Odonates)
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Tylopteradelphia Crampton 1924
= Pantyloptera Crampton 1924
= Panaeshnoptera Crampton 1928
= Odonatoidea Lameere 1936
=?Bioptera La Rivers 1940
= Odonatomorpha Demoulin 1970
= Odonatopterata Boudreaux 1979
= Eupalaeoptera Carle 1982
= Odonatopteroida Müller 1978
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS (with uncertain position of †Meganisoptera):
= Odonata
Fabricius 1793
s.l.
= Odonatea Rafinesque 1815 s.l.
= Paraneuroptera Shipley 1904 s.l.
= Zygopteradelphia Crampton 1916 s.l.
= Panzygoptera Crampton 1916 s.l.
=?Bioptera Rivers 1940 s.l.
= Orthomyaria Schwanwitsh 1943 s.l.
= Bimotoria Schwanwitsh 1946 s.l.
= Heterognatha Chen 1962 s.l. (non Saussure & Humbert 1872, nec Börner 1920)
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (without †Geroptera; including †Eomeganisoptera):
= Neodonatoptera
Bechly 1996
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (without †Geroptera, †Eomeganisoptera):
= Euodonatoptera
Bechly,
Brauckmann, Zessin 1998
(M.S.)
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Libellula/fg (incl. Meganeura)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Libellulida, Libelluloidea, Libelluloides, Libellulones
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon; the same as Odonata
s.l. Classifications
of Odonatoptera:
| the most pessimistic classification (Kluge 2000): |
| Odonatoptera,
or Odonata s.l. (Libellula/fg1) † Meganisoptera s.l. (Meganeura/fg1) † Protanisoptera (Ditaxineura/fg1) † Triadophlebioptera (Triadophlebia/fg1) † Protozygoptera (Kennedya/fg1) Neodonata, or Odonata s.str. (Libellula/fg2) Zygoptera Anisopteroides |
| the most optimistic classification (Bechly 1996): |
| Odonatoptera
s.1,
or Odonata s.1 (Libellula/fg1) † Geroptera (Eugeropteron/fg1) Nodonatoptera, or Odonatoptera s.2, or Odonata s.2 (Libellula/fg2) † Eomeganisoptera (Erasipteron/fg1) Euodonatoptera, or Odonatoptera s.3, or Odonata s.3 (Libellula/fg3) † Meganisoptera s.str. (Meganeura/fg1) Odonatoclada, or Odonata s.4 (Libellula/fg4) † Campyloptera/fg1 † Lapeyuria/fg1 Nodialata, or Odonata s.5 (Libellula/fg5) † Protanisoptera (Ditaxineura/fg1) Discoidalia, or Odonata s.6 (Libellula/fg6) † Triadophlebioptera (Triadophlebia/fg1 or Triadotypus/fg1) Stigmoptera, or Odonata s.7 (Libellula/fg7) † Protozygoptera (Kennedya/fg1) Neodonata, or Odonata s.8 (Libellula/fg8) † Tarsophlebia/fg1 Odonata s.9 (Libellula/fg9) Zygoptera Anisopteroides |