Chalcolestes Temporal range: | |
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C. viridis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Lestidae |
Genus: | Chalcolestes Kennedy, 1920 |
Chalcolestes is a small genus of damselfly in the family Lestidae. They are commonly known as willow spreadwings. They are similar to the spreadwings of the genus Lestes .
The name Chalcolestes comes from Greek: χαλχοσ copper and ληστησ predator. [1]
The genus contains only two species: [2]
Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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![]() | ![]() | Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929) | Eastern Willow Spreadwing [3] | eastern Mediterranean; on Cyprus, Corsica, Crete and Sicily |
![]() | ![]() | Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825) | Willow Emerald Damselfly, [4] Western Willow Spreadwing [3] | Corsica, Sicily, Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, in the Maghreb in North Africa, Turkey and the Middle East |
A single fossil species, † Chalcolestes tibetensis Xia et al., 2022 is known from the Late Eocene of Tibet. [5]