Biology:Cordulephyidae

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Short description: Family of dragonflies

Cordulephyidae
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Mating Cordulephya pygmaea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Superfamily: Libelluloidea
Family: Cordulephyidae
Tillyard, 1917[1][2]
Genera

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Cordulephyidae is a small family of dragonflies occurring in Africa and Australia .[3][4] Members of Cordulephyidae can be small to tiny, black and yellow dragonflies.[5]

The family Cordulephyidae is not recognised in the World Odonata List at the Slater Museum of Natural History, but rather its species are considered to be part of the Synthemistidae family.[6]

Genera

The family includes the following genera:

References

  1. Tillyard, R.J. (1917). "On some new dragonflies from Australia and Tasmania (Order Odonata)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 450–479 [467]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6372406. 
  2. Dijkstra, K.D.B. et al. (2013). "The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa 3703 (1): 36–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9. http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/viewFile/zootaxa.3703.1.9/4279. Retrieved 2017-04-17. 
  3. "Family CORDULEPHYIDAE". Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Cordulephyidae. 
  4. Bechly, G. (1996). "Morphologische Untersuchungen am Flügelgeäder der rezenten Libellen und deren Stammgruppenvertreter (Insecta; Pterygota; Odonata) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Phylogenetischen Systematik und des Grundplanes der Odonata". Petalura Special volume 2: 1–402. 
  5. Theischinger, Günther; Hawking, John (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 290. ISBN 978 0 64309 073 6. 
  6. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/. 

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