Heteropodagrion

Heteropodagrion is a genus of flatwings in the damselfly order Odonata. There are about five described species in Heteropodagrion.[1][2][3][4]

Heteropodagrion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Calopterygoidea
Genus: Heteropodagrion
(Selys, 1885)

As a result of molecular phylogenetic studies by Dijkstra et al. in 2013, the genus Heteropodagrion is considered "incertae sedis", without an assigned family but within the superfamily Calopterygoidea.[1][3]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Heteropodagrion:[3]

References

  1. 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.
  2. "Odonata Central". Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  3. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  4. Perez-Gutierrez, L. A. & Montes-Fontalvo, J. M. (2011). "Heteropodagrion croizati sp. nov. (Odonata: Megapodagrionidae) with a key to the known species of the genus." Zootaxa 2810: 63-68.


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