Acisoma

Pintails
Grizzled pintail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Subfamily:	Sympetrinae
Genus:	Acisoma Rambur, 1842

Acisoma is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.

Species

It contains six species: ^{[1] [2]}

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
		Acisoma ascalaphoides Rambur, 1842	littoral pintail	Madagascar
		Acisoma attenboroughi Mens, Schütte, Stokvis & Dijkstra, 2016	Attenborough's pintail	Madagascar
		Acisoma inflatum Selys, 1882	stout pintail	Sahara in Algeria, Egypt and Libya.
		Acisoma panorpoides Rambur, 1842	Asian pintail, grizzled pintail [3]	Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
		Acisoma trifidum Kirby, 1889	pied pintail, ivory pintail [4]	Africa
		Acisoma variegatum Kirby, 1898	slender pintail	Eastern and south-eastern Africa; Ethiopia to Katanga and north-eastern South Africa

References

1. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound . Retrieved 16 June 2016.
2. Mens, Lotte P.; Schütte, Kai; Stokvis, Frank R.; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2016). "Six, not two, species of Acisoma pintail dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae)". Zootaxa. 4109 (2): 153–172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.3. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   27394858.
3. Clausnitzer, V. & Suhling, F. (2009). "Acisoma panorpoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2009 e.T59785A11988855. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T59785A11988855.en . Retrieved 24 December 2017.
4. Suhling, F.; Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Acisoma trifidum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T59786A83842599. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59786A83842599.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

External links

• Media related to Acisoma at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Acisoma at Wikispecies