Biology:Pseudolestes

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Short description: Genus of damselflies

Pseudolestes
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Calopterygoidea
Family: Pseudolestidae
Genus: Pseudolestes
Kirby, 1900
Species:
P. mirabilis
Binomial name
Pseudolestes mirabilis
Kirby, 1900

Pseudolestes mirabilis is a species of damselfly. As a result of molecular phylogenetic studies by Bybee et al. in 2021, its monotypic genus Pseudolestes is now in its own family, Pseudolestidae.[1][2]

References

  1. Seth M. Bybee et al. (2021) Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160: 1-15
  2. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 

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