NOMEN: Zygoptera Selys 1854
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Selys 1854):
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING:
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Selys 1854):
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Caudobranchiata Roster 1885
=?Zygopterides Lucas 1900
= Isoptera Lameere 1900 (non Brulle 1832)
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Calepteryx/f=Lestes/g (the oldest name Agrion/fg should be suppressed by the ICZN)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE:
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Zygoptera:
| Neodonata, or
Odonata
s.str. Zygoptera Anisopteroides Epiophlebioptera Anisoptera |