Chalcolestes

Chalcolestes Temporal range: Late Eocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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]

Species

The genus contains only two species: ^[2]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
		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]

References

1. Costantino D’Antonio and Francesca Vegliante. "Derivatio nominis libellularum europæarum" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 3 August 2010.
2. Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral. University of Alabama.
3. "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
4. "Checklist of UK Species". British Dragonfly Society . Retrieved 5 August 2010.
5. Xia, Guoqing; Zheng, Daran; Krieg-Jacquier, Régis; Fan, Qiushuang; Chen, Yun; Nel, André (2022). "The oldest-known Lestidae (Odonata) from the late Eocene of Tibet: palaeoclimatic implications" . Geological Magazine. 159 (4): 511–518. doi:10.1017/S0016756821001102. ISSN   0016-7568.