Agriocnemis

Agriocnemis
Agriocnemis pieris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Coenagrionidae
Genus:	Agriocnemis Selys, 1877 [1]
Probable distribution of Agriocnemis

Agriocnemis pygmaea , female at West Bengal, India

Agriocnemis exsudans
mature male, Cook Islands

Agriocnemis exsudans
immature male, Cook Islands

Agriocnemis is a genus of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. ^[2] Agriocnemis is distributed widely across Africa, South-east Asia, Indonesia, Australia and islands in the Pacific. ^[3] They are small insects, commonly known as wisps.

Species

The genus Agriocnemis includes the following species: ^[4]

• Agriocnemis adercesLieftinck, 1932
• Agriocnemis alcyoneLaidlaw, 1931
• Agriocnemis angolenseLongfield, 1947
• Agriocnemis angustiramiPinhey, 1974
• Agriocnemis argentea Tillyard, 1906 - silver wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis carmelitaSelys, 1877
• Agriocnemis clauseniFraser, 1922
• Agriocnemis corbetiKumar & Prasad, 1978
• Agriocnemis dabreuiFraser, 1919
• Agriocnemis dissimilisD'Andrea & Carfi, 1997
• Agriocnemis dobsoni Fraser, 1954 - tropical wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis exilis Selys, 1872 - little wisp ^[5]
• Agriocnemis exsudansSelys, 1877
• Agriocnemis falcifera Pinhey, 1959 - white-masked wisp ^[5]
• Agriocnemis femina (Brauer, 1868) - pinhead wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis forcipataLe Roi, 1915
• Agriocnemis gratiosa Gerstäcker, 1891 - gracious wisp ^[5]
• Agriocnemis interruptaFraser, 1927
• Agriocnemis inversa Karsch, 1899
• Agriocnemis keralensis Peters, 1981
• Agriocnemis kunjina Watson, 1974 - Pilbara wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis lacteolaSelys, 1877
• Agriocnemis luteolaNavás, 1936
• Agriocnemis maclachlani Selys, 1877
• Agriocnemis merinaLieftinck, 1965
• Agriocnemis minima Selys, 1877
• Agriocnemis naiaFraser, 1923
• Agriocnemis nanaLaidlaw, 1914
• Agriocnemis palaeforma Pinhey, 1959
• Agriocnemis pieliNavás, 1933
• Agriocnemis pieris Laidlaw, 1919
• Agriocnemis pinheyi Balinsky, 1963 - Pinhey's wisp ^[5]
• Agriocnemis pygmaea (Rambur, 1842) - pygmy wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis ruberrimaBalinsky, 1961
• Agriocnemis rubricauda Tillyard, 1913 - red-rumped wisp ^[3]
• Agriocnemis salomonisLieftinck, 1949
• Agriocnemis sania Nielsen, 1959
• Agriocnemis splendidissima Laidlaw, 1919
• Agriocnemis thoracalis Sjöstedt, 1917
• Agriocnemis victoria Fraser, 1928
• Agriocnemis zerafica Le Roi, 1915

References

1. Selys-Longchamps, E. (1877). "Synopsis des Agrionines, 5me légion: Agrion (suite et fin). Les genres Telebasis, Argiocnemis et Hemiphlebia". Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Académie Royale de Belgique. 2 (in French). 43: 97–159 [134] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. "Genus Agriocnemis Selys, 1877". Australian Faunal Directory . Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
3. Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN   0-643-09073-8.
4. • Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
5. Samways, Michael J. (2008). Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa. Pensoft. ISBN   978-954-642-330-6.