Zygoptera

Ischnura elegans

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Superordo: Odonatoptera
Ordo: Odonata
Subordo: Zygoptera
Superfamiliae: Calopterygoidea – Coenagrionoidea – Lestoidea – Platystictoidea

Unplaced: †Andrephlebia – †Libanolestes

Name

Zygoptera Selys, 1854

References

Primary references

• Selys Longchamps, E. & Hagen, H.A. 1854. Monographie des caloptérygines. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 9: 1–291, pl. 1–14. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bechly, G. 2019. New fossil Odonata from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria with a new fossil calibration point for Zygoptera. Palaeoentomology 2(6): 618–632. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.6.13 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Bechly, G., Garrouste, R., Aase, A., Karr, J.A., Grande, L. & Nel, A. 2020 (Online) 2021 (Print). The damselfly palaeofauna from the Eocene of Wyoming and Colorado, USA (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera). Papers in Palaeontology 7(3): 1373–1402. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1346 . Reference page. 
• Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Kalkman, V.J., Dow, R.A., Stokvis, F.R. & Tol, J. van 2014. Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology 39(1): 68–96. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12035 . Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• čeština: Motýlice; Stejnokřídlice
• Deutsch: Kleinlibellen
• English: damselflies
• suomi: Yhtäläissiipiset
• français: Demoiselles
• עברית: שפרירית
• 日本語: イトトンボ亜目 (均翅亜目)
• Nederlands: Juffers
• Türkçe: Kızböceği

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