Urothemis
Urothemis signata male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Subfamily: Urothemistinae
Genus: Urothemis
Brauer, 1868[1]
Type species
Urothemis bisignata

Urothemis is a genus of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae.[2] Species of Urothemis can be medium-sized dragonflies which occur from Africa, across Asia to Indonesia and Australia.[3]

Species

The genus Urothemis includes the following species:[4]

MaleFemaleScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Urothemis abbotti Laidlaw, 1927Malaysia
Urothemis aliena Selys, 1878Red Baron[3]northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea.
Urothemis assignata (Selys, 1872)Red Basker[5]Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Urothemis bisignata Brauer, 1868Indonesia
Urothemis edwardsii (Selys, 1849)Blue Basker[6]Algeria; Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Côte d'Ivoire; Cameroon; Chad; Congo-Brazzaville; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinee-Bissau; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Urothemis luciana Balinsky, 1961St Lucia Basker[7]Mozambique; Republic of South Africa
Urothemis signata (Rambur, 1842)greater crimson glider- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China and Indochina, Australia and New Guinea
Urothemis thomasi Longfield, 1932Oman, United Arab Emirates.

References

  1. Brauer, F. (1868). "Neue und wenig bekannte vom Herrn Doct. Semper gesammelte Odonaten". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 18: 167–188 [175] via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. "Genus Urothemis Brauer, 1868". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8.
  4. Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
  5. Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B. (2016). "Urothemis assignata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60072A86822554. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60072A86822554.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. Boudot, J.-P.; Clausnitzer, V.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Suhling, F.; Samraoui, B.; Schneider, W. (2016). "Urothemis edwardsii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60073A83876779. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60073A83876779.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  7. Suhling, F. & Samways, M.J. (2010). "Urothemis luciana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T22816A9389698. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T22816A9389698.en. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
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