Platycnemididae
Appearance
Platycnemididae | |
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Copera marginipes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Superfamily: | Coenagrionoidea |
Family: | Platycnemididae Jacobson and Bianchi, 1905[1] |
Genera | |
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The Platycnemididae are a family of damselflies.[2] They are known commonly as white-legged damselflies.[3] There are over 400 species native to the Old World.[4] The family is divided into several subfamilies.[4]
Genera
There are about 42 genera of Platycnemididae.[5]
Genera include:
- Allocnemis
- Arabicnemis
- Asthenocnemis
- Calicnemia
- Coeliccia
- Copera
- Cyanocnemis
- Denticnemis
- Elattoneura
- Idiocnemis
- Indocnemis
- Leptocnemis
- Lieftinckia
- Lochmaeocnemis
- Macrocnemis
- Mesocnemis
- Metacnemis
- Oreocnemis
- Paracnemis
- Paramecocnemis
- Platycnemis
- Rhyacocnemis
- Risiocnemis
- Salomoncnemis
- Sinocnemis
- Stenocnemis
- Thaumatagrion
- Torrenticnemis
See also
References
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- ^ Dijkstra, K.D.B. (2013). "The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 36–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9.
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- ^ Platycnemididae. Fossilworks.
- ^ a b Dijkstra, K. D. B., Kalkman, V. J., Dow, R. A., Stokvis, F. R., & Van Tol, J. (2014). Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology, 39(1), 68-96.
- ^ Theischinger, G., Gassmann, D., & Richards, S. J. (2015). Macrocnemis gracilis, a new genus and species of Idiocnemidinae (Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa, 3990(3), 429.