Biology:Dicteriadidae
Dicteriadidae is a small family of damselflies with two species in two monotypic genera.[1] The family is endemic to South America.[2]
Taxonomic history
The lineage was first recognised by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1853 as the Legion Dicterias, comprising the genera Dicterias and Heliocharis.[3] During the twentieth century, the group was treated under several different family names, including Heliocharitidae and Dicteriastidae.[4][5]
Modern classifications recognise the family as Dicteriadidae. The name is based on Sélys' 1853 "Legion Dicterias", which corresponds to a modern family-level taxon. During the twentieth century the group was variously referred to as Heliocharitidae, Dicteriastidae and Dicteriidae, but Dunkle (1991) concluded that Dicteriadidae is the correct family-group name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.[6][7][8]
Etymology
The family name Dicteriadidae is derived from the type genus Dicterias, from the Greek δεικτηριάς (deiktērias, "female mime" or "female mimic").[7][9]
Species
- Dicterias atrosanguinea – red bareleg: endemic to Brazil
- Heliocharis amazona – widely distributed in South America
References
- ↑ "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/.
- ↑ Fleck, G., Neiss, U. G., & Hamada, N. (2012). The larva of Dicterias Selys, 1853 (Odonata: Heliocharitidae (= Dicteriadidae)), and taxonomic and phylogenetic notes on Heliocharitidae. Zootaxa, 3164, 32-40.
- ↑ Selys-Longchamps, E. (1853). "Synopsis des Caloptérygines" (in French). Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique 20 (Annexe): 1-73 [54]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2728767.
- ↑ Tillyard, R.J.; Fraser, F.C. (1939). "A reclassification of the order Odonata based on some new interpretations of the venation of the dragonfly wing. Part II". The Australian Zoologist 9: 195–221 [207]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38926841.
- ↑ Montgomery, B.E. (1959). "Geographical distribution of the New World calopterygine dragonflies, with notes on their evolutionary position". in Hewer, H.R.; Riley, N.D.. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Zoology, London, 16–23 July 1958. London: XVth International Congress of Zoology. pp. 1001–1003.
- ↑ Bridges, Charles A. (1994). Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Odonata of the world (3rd ed.). Urbana, Illinois: Charles A. Bridges. p. II.1. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15291. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15106020.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dunkle, S.W. (1991). "Review of the neotropical damselfly family Dicteriadidae (new spelling), with an annotated bibliography (Zygoptera)". Odonatologica 20 (4): 401–416. https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/591960.
- ↑ Trueman, John W.H. (1999). "The Family-Group Names Based on Selys' Légions". International Journal of Odonatology 2 (2): 141–144. doi:10.1080/13887890.1999.9748125. Bibcode: 1999IJOdo...2..141T.
- ↑ Sophocles, E. A. (1860). A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. Memoirs of the American Academy. 7. London: Trübner & Co.. pp. 624 [244]. https://archive.org/details/jstor-25058192.
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