Biology:Diplacodes

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Short description: Genus of dragonflies

Perchers
Male scarlet percher
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Subfamily: Sympetrinae
Genus: Diplacodes
Kirby, 1889[1]

Diplacodes is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family.[2] They are commonly known as perchers. Their colours range from the totally black body of the African Diplacodes lefebvrii, the lovely pale blue of India's Diplacodes trivialis, to the intense red of the Asian–Australian Diplacodes haematodes.

Various species of this genus occur in Africa, Asia, Australia and the South West Pacific. They are generally small in size.

Species

The genus Diplacodes includes the following species:[3]

Male Female Scientific name Common name Distribution
120px Diplacodes bipunctata (Brauer, 1865) wandering percher[4] Australia
Diplacodes deminuta Lieftinck, 1969 little percher[5] Central Africa
Diplacodes exul (Selys, 1883) Madagascar
120px Diplacodes haematodes (Burmeister, 1839) scarlet percher[4] Australia (except Tasmania), Timor, New Guinea, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.
120px Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842) black percher[6] Africa and southern Eurasia.
Diplacodes luminans (Karsch, 1893) luminous percher, barbet, barbet percher[7] Central Africa
120px Diplacodes melanopsis (Martin, 1901) black-faced percher[4] Eastern Australia
120px Diplacodes nebulosa (Fabricius, 1793) charcoal-winged percher[4] Asia and northern Australia
120px Diplacodes pumila Dijkstra, 2006 dwarf percher[8] Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Diplacodes spinulosa Navás, 1915 Africa
120px Diplacodes trivialis (Rambur, 1842) chalky percher,[4] ground skimmer[9] India

References

  1. Kirby, W.F. (1889). "A revision of the subfamily Libellulinae, with descriptions of new genera and species". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 12: 249–348 [307]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1889.tb00016.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31019704. 
  2. "Genus Diplacodes Kirby, 1889". Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Diplacodes. 
  3. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The complete field guide to dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8. 
  5. Clausnitzer, V.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Suhling, F. (2016). "Diplacodes deminuta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T59863A84817476. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59863A84817476.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/59863/84817476. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  6. "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. http://www.dragonflypix.com/checklist.html. 
  7. Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Diplacodes luminans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T184261A83894418. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T184261A83894418.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/184261/83894418. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  8. Clausnitzer, V.; Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F. (2010). "Diplacodes pumila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T168013A6442446. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T168013A6442446.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/168013/6442446. 
  9. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India. http://www.ias.ac.in/initiat/sci_ed/lifescape/odonates-dragonflies.pdf. 

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