Biology:Oplonaeschna

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Short description: Genus of dragonflies

Oplonaeschna
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Oplonaeschna armata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Aeshnidae
Genus: Oplonaeschna
Selys, 1883

Oplonaeschna is a genus of riffle darners in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. There are about five described species in Oplonaeschna.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Oplonaeschna:

  • Oplonaeschna armata (Hagen, 1861) (riffle darner)
  • Oplonaeschna magna González & Novelo, 1998
  • Oplonaeschna lapidaria Cockerell & Counts
  • Aeschna metis (Heer, 1849)
  • Oplonaeschna staurophlebioides Henriksen, 1922

References

Further reading

  • Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592. https://archive.org/details/dragonfliesofwor0000sils. 
  • Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. 111. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014934-0. 
  • Needham, James G.; Westfall Jr., Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (2000). Dragonflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-94-1. 
  • Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.

Wikidata ☰ Q2165625 entry