Platycnemididae
| Platycnemididae | |
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| Copera marginipes | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Superfamily: | Coenagrionoidea |
| Family: | Platycnemididae Jacobson and Bianchi, 1905 |
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The Platycnemididae are a family of damselflies. They are known commonly as white-legged damselflies.[1] There are over 400 species native to the Old World.[2] The family is divided into several subfamilies.[2]
There are about 42 genera.[3]
Genera include:
- Allocnemis
- Arabicnemis
- Asthenocnemis
- Calicnemia
- Coeliccia
- Copera
- Cyanocnemis
- Denticnemis
- Elattoneura
- Idiocnemis
- Indocnemis
- Leptocnemis
- Lieftinckia
- Lochmaeocnemis
- Mesocnemis
- Metacnemis
- Oreocnemis
- Paracnemis
- Paramecocnemis
- Platycnemis
- Rhyacocnemis
- Risiocnemis
- Salomoncnemis
- Sinocnemis
- Stenocnemis
- Thaumatagrion
- Torrenticnemis
See also
References
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- ↑ Platycnemididae. Fossilworks.
- 1 2 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.
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