Coryphagrion grandis

Coryphagrion grandis
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Pseudostigmatidae
Genus:	Coryphagrion
Species:	C. grandis
Binomial name
Coryphagrion grandis Morton, 1924

Coryphagrion grandis is a species of damselfly found in coastal forests and on the lower slopes of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. Its monotypic genus Coryphagrion was formerly considered the only member of the family Coryphagrionidae ( sometimes placed in the Megapodagrionidae as subfamily Coryphagrioninae). It is now placed within the family Pseudostigmatidae, whose other members are all Neotropical.

References

• Clausnitzer, V. 2010. Coryphagrion grandis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 29 August 2014.
• Fincke, Ola M. (2006). "Use of Forest and Tree Species, and Dispersal by Giant Damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae): Their Prospects in Fragmented Forests" (PDF). In Adolfo Cordero Rivera (ed.). Fourth WDA International Symposium of Odonatology, Pontevedra (Spain), July 2005. Sofia—Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. pp. 103–125. Retrieved 2007-06-22. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)
• Groeneveld, Linn F.; Viola Clausnitzer; Heike Hadrys (2007). "Convergent Evolution of Gigantism in Damselflies of Africa and South America? Evidence from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Sequence Data [abstract]". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42 (2): 339–46. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.040. PMID 16945555. Retrieved 2007-07-19.