Hydrobasileus

Hydrobasileus
Hydrobasileus brevistylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Subfamily:	Trameinae
Tribe:	Trameini
Genus:	Hydrobasileus Kirby, 1889 [1]
Type species
Hydrobasileus vittatus

Hydrobasileus is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae, ^[2] found in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia. ^[3]

Species

The genus Hydrobasileus includes the following three species: ^[4]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
		Hydrobasileus brevistylus (Brauer, 1865) [5]	water prince	Northern Territory to Queensland and central New South Wales
		Hydrobasileus croceus (Brauer, 1867)	amber-winged marsh glider	Sri Lanka, India
		Hydrobasileus vittatus Kirby, 1889		New Guinea, Indonesia

See also

• List of Odonata species of Australia

References

1. Kirby, W.F. (1889). "A revision of the subfamily Libellulinae, with descriptions of new genera and species". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 12: 249–348 [266]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1889.tb00016.x – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. "Genus Hydrobasileus Kirby, 1889". Australian Faunal Directory . Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
3. Watson, J.A.L.; Theischinger, G.; Abbey, H.M. (1991). The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melbourne: CSIRO. p. 278. ISBN   0643051368.
4. Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Archived from the original on 2010-10-28. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
5. Theischinger, G; Hawking, J (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood Vic.: CSIRO Publishing. p. 294. ISBN   978-0-64309-073-6.