Aethriamanta

Aethriamanta
Pond adjutant, male Aethriamanta gracilis Pulau Ubin, Singapore
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Genus:	Aethriamanta Kirby, 1889 [1]
Type species
Aethriamanta brevipennis

Aethriamanta is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. ^[2] Species of Aethriamanta are found in Madagascar, through Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia. ^[2]

Species

This genus Aethriamanta includes the following species: ^[3]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
		Aethriamanta aethra Ris, 1912		Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
		Aethriamanta brevipennis (Rambur, 1842)	scarlet marsh hawk [4]	Asia
		Aethriamanta circumsignata Selys, 1897	square-spot basker [5]	Australia, and New Guinea
		Aethriamanta gracilis (Brauer, 1878)		Sumatra and Borneo Philippines, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Lao
		Aethriamanta nymphaeae Lieftinck, 1949	L-spot basker [5]	northern Australia
		Aethriamanta rezia Kirby, 1889	pygmy basker [6]	Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe

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 [283]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1889.tb00016.x – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. "Genus Aethriamanta Kirby, 1889". Australian Faunal Directory . Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
3. Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral. University of Alabama.
4. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India (PDF).
5. Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN   0-643-09073-8.
6. Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Aethriamanta rezia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T59793A83843446. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59793A83843446.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.