Caliphaea

Caliphaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Calopterygidae
Subfamily:	Calopteryginae
Tribe:	Caliphaeini Fraser, 1929
Genus:	Caliphaea Hagen, 1859

Caliphaea is a genus of broad-winged damselflies in the family Calopterygidae. There are about seven described species in Caliphaea. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Caliphaea:

• Caliphaea angka Hämäläinen, 2003
• Caliphaea confusa Hagen in Selys, 1859
• Caliphaea consimilis McLachlan, 1894
• Caliphaea hermannkunzi Zhang & Hämäläinen, 2020 ^[5]
• Caliphaea nitens Navás, 1934
• Caliphaea thailandica Asahina, 1976
• Caliphaea sinuofurcata Sawant, Joshi & Kunte, 2025 ^[6]

References

1. "Caliphaea". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
2. Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Dow, Rory A.; Stokvis, Frank R.; et al. (2014). "Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 68–96. Bibcode:2014SysEn..39...68D. doi: 10.1111/syen.12035 .
3. "Odonata Central" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.
4. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. Zhang, Hao-Miao; HäMäLäInen, Matti (2020-12-14). "Description of a new Caliphaea species from Yunnan, China (Odonata: Calopterygidae)" . Zootaxa. 4895 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.5. ISSN   1175-5334.
6. Sawant, Dattaprasad; Joshi, Shantanu; Pawar, Ujwala; Nawge, Viraj; Kunte, Krushnamegh (2025-05-20). "Caliphaea sinuofurcata sp. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Calopterygidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India" . Zootaxa. 5637 (1): 139–154. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5637.1.6. ISSN   1175-5334.

Further reading

• Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl: 1887/22953 .
• Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-014933-3.
• Westfall, Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (1996). Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN   978-0-945417-93-4.