Dicteriadidae
Family of damselflies
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Superfamily: | Calopterygoidea |
Family: | Dicteriadidae Selys, 1853[1] |
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The Dicteriadidae are a small family of damselflies with only two species in two monotypic genera. The family is endemic to South America.[2]
Species:
- Dicterias atrosanguinea – red bareleg: endemic to Brazil
- Heliocharis amazona – widely distributed in South America
References
- ^ Trueman, John W.H. (1999). "The Family-Group Names Based on Selys' Légions". International Journal of Odonatology. 2 (2): 141–144. Bibcode:1999IJOdo...2..141T. doi:10.1080/13887890.1999.9748125.
- ^ Fleck, G., Neiss, U. G., & Hamada, N. (2012). The larva of Dicterias Selys, 1853 (Odonata: Heliocharitidae (= Dicteriadidae)), and taxonomic and phylogenetic notes on Heliocharitidae. Zootaxa, 3164, 32-40.
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Extant Odonata families
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Superorder: Odonatoptera
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