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If you refer to the Wireshark User Guide in section 3.18. The "Packet List" Pane, you will find Table 3.16. Related packet symbols, which describes all the icons you might see on the left side of the packet list pane, including the left bracket symbol. For convenience, here is a copy of the table:


image description First packet in a conversation.

image description Part of the selected conversation.

image description Not part of the selected conversation.

image description Last packet in a conversation.

image description Request.

image description Response.

image description The selected packet acknowledges this packet.

image description The selected packet is a duplicate acknowledgement of this packet.

image description The selected packet is related to this packet in some other way, e.g., as part of reassembly.