Calopterygoidea
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| Calopterygoidea | |
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| Austroargiolestes icteromelas, Common Flatwing (male), Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Superfamily: | Calopterygoidea Selys, 1850 |
Calopterygoidea is a superfamily of damselflies in the order Odonata.[1]
Families[edit]
- Amanipodagrionidae
- Amphipterygidae Tillyard, 1917
- Argiolestidae Fraser, 1957
- Calopterygidae Selys, 1850 (broad-winged damselflies)
- Chlorocyphidae Cowley, 1937
- Devadattidae Dijkstra, 2014
- Dicteriadidae Montgomery, 1959
- Euphaeidae Yakobson & Bianchi, 1905
- Heteragrionidae Rácenis, 1959
- Hypolestidae Fraser, 1938
- Lestoideidae Munz, 1919
- Megapodagrionidae Calvert, 1913
- Mesagrionidae
- Mesopodagrionidae
- Pentaphlebiidae Novelo-Gutiérrez, 1995
- Philogangidae Kennedy, 1920
- Philogeniidae Rácenis, 1959
- Philosinidae Kennedy, 1925
- Polythoridae Munz, 1919
- Protolestidae
- Pseudolestidae Fraser, 1957
- Rhipidolestidae
- Rimanellidae Davies & Tobin, 1984
- Tatocnemididae
- Thaumatoneuridae Fraser, 1938
- † Pseudostenolestidae Garrouste & Nel 2015
Unplaced genera[edit]
Following molecular phylogenetic studies in 2021, all of the genera under Calopterygoidea were placed into families except the genus Sciotropis Rácenis, 1959.[2][1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ Seth M. Bybee et al. (2021) Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160: 1-15