Calopterygoidea

Calopterygoidea
Austroargiolestes icteromelas, Common Flatwing (male), Australia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Superfamily:	Calopterygoidea Sélys, 1850 [1]

Calopterygoidea is a superfamily of damselflies in the order Odonata. ^{[2] [3]}

Families

• Amanipodagrionidae Dijkstra & Ware, 2021
• Amphipterygidae Tillyard, 1917
• Argiolestidae Fraser, 1957
• Calopterygidae Selys, 1850 (broad-winged damselflies)
• Chlorocyphidae Cowley, 1937
• Devadattidae Dijkstra, 2014
• Dicteriadidae Montgomery, 1959
• Euphaeidae Yakobson & Bianchi, 1905
• Heteragrionidae Rácenis, 1959
• Hypolestidae Fraser, 1938
• Lestoideidae Munz, 1919
• Megapodagrionidae Calvert, 1913
• Mesagrionidae Kalkman & Sanchez Herrera, 2021
• Mesopodagrionidae Kalkman & Abbott, 2021
• Pentaphlebiidae Novelo-Gutiérrez, 1995
• Philogangidae Kennedy, 1920
• Philogeniidae Rácenis, 1959
• Philosinidae Kennedy, 1925
• Polythoridae Munz, 1919
• Priscagrionidae Kalkman & Bybee, 2021
• Protolestidae Dijkstra & Bybee, 2021
• Pseudolestidae Fraser, 1957
• Rhipidolestidae Silsby, 2001
• Rimanellidae Davies & Tobin, 1984
• Tatocnemididae Racenis, 1959
• Thaumatoneuridae Fraser, 1938
• † Pseudostenolestidae Garrouste & Nel 2015

Unplaced genera

Following molecular phylogenetic studies in 2021, all of the genera under Calopterygoidea were placed into families except the genus Sciotropis Rácenis, 1959. ^{[4] [2]}

References

1. Selys-Longchamps, E. (1850). "Revue des odonates ou libellules d'Europe". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (in French). 6: 1–408 [133] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
3. Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Bechly, Günter; Bybee, Seth M.; Dow, Rory A.; Dumont, Henri J.; Fleck, Günther; Garrison, Rosser W.; Hämäläinen, Matti; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Karube, Haruki; May, Michael L.; Orr, Albert G.; Paulson, Dennis R.; Rehn, Andrew C.; Theischinger, Günther; Trueman, John W.H.; Van Tol, Jan; von Ellenrieder, Natalia; Ware, Jessica (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 . hdl: 10072/61365 . ISSN   1175-5334.
4. Bybee, S. M.; Kalkman, V. J.; Erickson, R. J.; Frandsen, P. B.; Breinholt, J. W.; Suvorov, A.; Ware, J. L. (2021). "Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 160: 1–15. Bibcode:2021MolPE.16007115B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107115. hdl: 11093/2768 . PMID   33609713.