Ictinogomphus

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Ictinogomphus
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–present
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Ictinogomphus rapax
(Common Clubtail)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Gomphidae
Genus: Ictinogomphus
Cowley, 1934 [1]
Common flangetail I. decoratus melaenops male Thailand Common flangetail (Ictinogomphus decoratus melaenops) Phi Phi.jpg
Common flangetail
I. decoratus melaenops male
Thailand

Ictinogomphus is a genus of dragonflies in the family Gomphidae. [2] [3] They are medium to large, yellow and black with clear wings. [4] Species occur in Africa, Asia and Australia. [4] Fossil species are also known from Europe. [5]

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Species

The genus Ictinogomphus includes the following species: [2]

The following fossil species are also known:

The former fossil species † Ictinogomphus fur Hagen, 1863 from the Oligocene of Germany is thought to no longer belong to this genus, due to differences in the wing structure. [5]

Notes on taxonomy

Jules Rambur originally described this genus as Ictinus in 1842. [10] However, at the time there already existed a genus of beetle also named Ictinus described by François Laporte in 1834. [11] In 1934, John Cowley, an English entomologist, renamed this species to Ictinogomphus in deference to Rambur's original name. Cowley is now regarded as the authority, and this genus can be formally written as: IctinogomphusCowley, 1934. [3]

Up until recently, species of Ictinogomphus were sometimes considered to be in the family Lindeniidae . [4] Lindeniidae is no longer recognised as a family, and Ictinogomphus is now found in the family, Gomphidae . [12]

References

  1. ↑ Cowley, J. (1934). "The types of some genera of Gomphidae (Odonata)". The Entomologist. 67: 273–276 [274].
  2. 1 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. 1 2 "Genus Ictinogomphus Cowley, 1934". Australian Faunal Directory . Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN   0-643-09073-8.
  5. 1 2 3 Universités~andre.nel@mnhn.fr, André Nel~Sorbonne; Rheinland-Pfalz~markus.poschmann@gdke.rlp.de, Markus J. Poschmann~Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe; Sonja Wedmann~Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Forschungsstation Grube Messel~sonja wedmann@senckenberg de (6 December 2020). "New dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany)". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1126 . Retrieved 22 August 2025.
  6. ↑ Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F. & Kipping, J. (2010). "Ictinogomphus dundoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010: e.T63190A12615558. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T63190A12615558.en .
  7. ↑ Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B. (2016). "Ictinogomphus ferox". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T59894A85585956. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59894A85585956.en .
  8. ↑ Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India (PDF).
  9. ↑ Schädel, Mario; Lechner, Thomas S. (13 March 2017). "Two new dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera) from the Miocene of Carinthia (Austria)". Zootaxa. 4243 (1): 153–164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4243.1.7. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   28610176.
  10. ↑ Rambur, Jules (1842). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Névroptères (in French). Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 534 [171] – via Gallica.
  11. ↑ Laporte, F. (1834). Audouin, J.V.; Brullé, G.A. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des insectes, traitant de leur organisation et de leurs moeurs en général, par M. V. Audouin et comprenant leur classification et la description des espèces, par M. A. Brullé. Paris: F.D. Pillot. pp. 479 [259]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.34228 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  12. ↑ 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 (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.

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