Biology:Urothemis
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Short description: Genus of dragonflies
| Urothemis | |
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| Urothemis signata male | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
| Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Urothemis abbotti Laidlaw, 1927 | Malaysia | |||
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Urothemis aliena Selys, 1878 | Red Baron[3] | northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. | |
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120px | 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, 1868 | Indonesia | |||
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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 | |
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120px | Urothemis luciana Balinsky, 1961 | St Lucia Basker[7] | Mozambique; Republic of South Africa |
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120px | Urothemis signata (Rambur, 1842) | greater crimson glider | - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China and Indochina, Australia and New Guinea |
| Urothemis thomasi Longfield, 1932 | Oman, United Arab Emirates. |
References
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- ↑ Brauer, F. (1868). "Neue und wenig bekannte vom Herrn Doct. Semper gesammelte Odonaten." (in German). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 18: 167–188 [175]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25254138.
- ↑ "Genus Urothemis Brauer, 1868". Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Urothemis.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8.
- ↑ "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/.
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60072/86822554. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60073/83876779. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ 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. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22816/9389698. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
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