Protoneuridae
Prodasineura croconota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Coenagrionoidea
Family: Protoneuridae
Tillyard, 1917 [1]
Genera

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Prodasineura verticalis, female at Kerala, India

The Protoneuridae are a family of damselflies. Most species are commonly known as threadtails, while others are commonly known as bambootails.

Characteristics

These are usually small-sized damselflies and their wings are narrow and mostly transparent, with simple venation. The males tend to be colourful and many have a red, orange, yellow or blue thorax and a black abdomen. Others have a black thorax and brightly coloured abdomen and others are entirely dark. Their usual habitats are the verges of rivers and streams and the margins of large lakes.[2]

Update

Now Pseudostigmatidae and New World Protoneuridae are sunk in Coenagrionidae and Old World Protoneuridae in Platycnemididae.[3]

Genera

The family contains the following genera :[4][5]

  • Amazoneura Machado, 2004
  • Arabineura Schneider and Dumont, 1995
  • Caconeura Kirby, 1890
  • Chlorocnemis Selys, 1863
  • Drepanoneura von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2008
  • Disparoneura Selys, 1860
  • Elattoneura Cowley, 1935
  • Epipleoneura Williamson, 1915
  • Epipotoneura Williamson, 1915
  • Esme Fraser, 1922
  • Forcepsioneura Lencioni, 1999
  • Idioneura Selys, 1860
  • Isomecocnemis Cowley, 1936
  • Lamproneura De Marmels, 2003
  • Melanoneura Fraser, 1922
  • Microneura Hagen in Selys, 1886
  • Neoneura Selys, 1860
  • Nososticta Selys, 1860
  • Peristicta Hagen in Selys, 1860
  • Phasmoneura Williamson, 1916
  • Phylloneura Fraser, 1922
  • Prodasineura Cowley, 1934
  • Proneura Selys, 1889
  • Protoneura Selys in Sagra, 1857
  • Psaironeura Williamson, 1915
  • Roppaneura Santos, 1966

See also

References

Wikispecies has information related to Protoneuridae.
  1. ↑ "Liste des espèces d'odonates en collection au Muséum : collection exotique" (in French). Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
  2. ↑ Paulson, Dennis (2009). Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West. Princeton University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-4008-3294-1.
  3. ↑ Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Bechly, Günter; Bybee, Seth M.; Dow, Rory A.; Dumont, Henri J.; Fleck, Günther; Garrison, Rosser W.; Hämäläinen, Matti; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Karube, Haruki; May, Michael L.; Orr, Albert G.; Paulson, Dennis R.; Rehn, Andrew C.; Theischinger, Günther; Trueman, John W.H.; Van Tol, Jan; von Ellenrieder, Natalia; Ware, Jessica (2013). " The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) ". Zootaxa. 3703: 36. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9. hdl:10072/61365 – via ResearchGate.
  4. ↑ "Protoneuridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  5. ↑ "The Families and Genera of Odonata". Slater Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-08-22.


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