Bornargiolestes

Bornargiolestes is a genus of flatwings in the damselfly order Odonata. There are at least three described species in Bornargiolestes.[1][2][3][4]

Bornargiolestes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Division: Palaeoptera
Superorder: Odonatoptera
(unranked): Holodonata
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Calopterygoidea
Genus: Bornargiolestes
Kimmins, 1936

As a result of molecular phylogenetic studies by Dijkstra et al. in 2013, the genus Bornargiolestes is considered "incertae sedis", without an assigned family but within the superfamily Calopterygoidea.[2][4]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Bornargiolestes:[4]

  • Bornargiolestes fuscus Dow, 2014
  • Bornargiolestes nigra Kimmins, 1936
  • Bornargiolestes reelsi Dow, 2014

References
  1. "Bornargiolestes". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  2. Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Dow, Rory A.; Stokvis, Frank R.; et al. (2014). "Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 68–96. doi:10.1111/syen.12035.
  3. "Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.


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