Euphaea

Euphaea
Euphaea decorata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Euphaeidae
Subfamily:	Euphaeinae
Genus:	Euphaea Selys, 1840

Euphaea is a genus of damselflies in the family Euphaeidae. There are more than 30 described species in Euphaea, found mainly in Indomalaya. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Euphaea masoni

Species

These species belong to the genus Euphaea: ^[1]

• Euphaea ameeka van Tol & Norma-Rashid, 1995
• Euphaea amphicyana Ris, 1930
• Euphaea aspasia Selys, 1853
• Euphaea basalis (Laidlaw, 1915)
• Euphaea bocki McLachlan, 1880
• Euphaea cardinalis (Fraser, 1924)
• Euphaea cora Ris, 1930
• Euphaea cyanopogon Hämäläinen, Kosterin & Kompier, 2019
• Euphaea decorata Hagen in Selys, 1853 (black-banded gossamerwing)
• Euphaea dispar Rambur, 1842 (nilgiri torrent dart)
• Euphaea formosa Hagen in Selys, 1869
• Euphaea fraseri (Laidlaw, 1920)
• Euphaea guerini Rambur, 1842
• Euphaea hirta Hämäläinen & Karube, 2001
• Euphaea impar Selys, 1859 (blue-sided satinwing)
• Euphaea inouei Asahina, 1977
• Euphaea lara Krüger, 1898
• Euphaea masoni Selys, 1879
• Euphaea modigliani Selys, 1898
• Euphaea ochracea Selys, 1859
• Euphaea opaca Selys, 1853 (sooty gossamerwing)
• Euphaea ornata (Campion, 1924)
• Euphaea pahyapi Hämäläinen, 1985
• Euphaea pseudodispar Sadasivan & Bhakare, 2021
• Euphaea refulgens Hagen in Selys, 1853
• Euphaea sanguinea Kompier & Hayashi, 2018
• Euphaea saola Phan & Hayashi, 2018
• Euphaea splendens Hagen in Selys, 1853
• Euphaea subcostalis Selys, 1873
• Euphaea subnodalis (Laidlaw, 1915)
• Euphaea superba Kimmins, 1936
• Euphaea thosegharensis Sadasivan & Bhakare, 2021
• Euphaea tricolor Selys, 1859
• Euphaea variegata Rambur, 1842
• Euphaea wayanadensis Anooj, Susanth, & Sadasivan, 2025 ^[4]
• Euphaea yayeyamana Matsumura & Oguma, 1913

References

1. Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama . Retrieved 12 November 2023.
2. "Euphaea". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
3. 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 .
4. Anooj, S.S.; Susanth, C.; Sadasivan, Kalesh; Bhakare, Shriram Dinkar; Sawant, Dattaprasad; Nair, Vinayan Padmanabhan (2025). "A new species of Euphaea Selys, 1840 (Odonata, Euphaeidae) from Wayanad, Western Ghats, Kerala, India". Entomon. 50 (1): 73–84. doi:10.33307/entomon.v50i1.1416.

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 .

External links

• Media related to Euphaea at Wikimedia Commons