Perilestidae

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Perilestidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
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Perissolestes guianensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Lestoidea
Family: Perilestidae
Kennedy, 1920 [1]

The Perilestidae are a family of damselflies commonly known as shortwings and twigtails. [2] It is a small family of around 19 species. [3] All extant species are native to the Neotropical realm. In the past Nubiolestes of Africa was included in this family, [3] but this is doubted. Palaeoperilestes electronicus is an extinct species described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. [4]

These damselflies are short-winged and have very long, slender, color-banded abdomens. [2] They live in dense forest habitat and rest with their abdomens hanging vertically. [5]

Genera

The family Perilestidae include the following genera: [6]

References

  1. ↑ Kennedy, C.H. (1920). "The phylogeny of the zygopterous dragonflies as based on the evidence of the penes". Ohio Journal of Science. 21 (1): 19–29 [25] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. 1 2 Haber, W. and Wagner, D. Perilestidae: Shortwings. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ecuador.
  3. 1 2 Neiss, U. G. and Neusa, H. (2010). The larva of Perilestes attenuatus Selys, 1886 (Odonata: Perilestidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 2614 53-58.
  4. ↑ Zheng, Daran; Wang, Bo; Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Chang, Su-Chin; Nel, André (2016-10-01). "The first fossil Perilestidae (Odonata: Zygoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 65: 199–205. Bibcode:2016CrRes..65..199Z. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.05.002. hdl: 10722/231813 .
  5. ↑ Machado, A. (2015). Perilestes eustaquioi sp. nov. and new distributional records of Perilestidae (Odonata) in Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba), 32(5), 428-430.
  6. ↑ Schorr, Martin; Paulson, Dennis. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. University of Puget Sound . Retrieved 4 April 2017.
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