Orolestes

Orolestes
Orolestes wallacei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Lestidae
Genus:	Orolestes McLachlan, 1895

Orolestes is a genus of stalk-winged damselflies in the family Lestidae. There are about seven described species in Orolestes. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Orolestes:

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
		Orolestes durga Lahiri, 1987		India
		Orolestes excelsus Fraser, 1933		Thailand
		Orolestes motis Baijal & Agarwal, 1956		India
		Orolestes octomaculatus Martin, 1904		Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia
		Orolestes selysi McLachlan, 1895		Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, China
		Orolestes wallacei (Kirby, 1889)		Malaysia

References

1. "Orolestes". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
2. 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 .
3. "Odonata Central" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.
4. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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 .
• Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-014933-3.
• Westfall, Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (1996). Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN   978-0-945417-93-4.

External links

• Media related to Orolestes at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Orolestes at Wikispecies