Diplacodes

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Perchers
Diplacodes haematodes.jpg
Male scarlet percher
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Subfamily:
Genus: Diplacodes
Kirby, 1889[1]

Diplacodes is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family.[2] They are commonly known as perchers. Their colours range from the totally black body of the African Diplacodes lefebvrii, the lovely pale blue of India's Diplacodes trivialis, to the intense red of the Asian–Australian Diplacodes haematodes.

Various species of this genus occur in Africa, Asia, Australia and the South West Pacific. They are generally small in size.

Species[]

The genus Diplacodes includes the following species:[3]

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Male Wandering Percher (17063332425).jpg Female Wandering Percher bum up (15920092471).jpg Diplacodes bipunctata (Brauer, 1865) wandering percher[4] Australia
Diplacodes deminuta Lieftinck, 1969 little percher[5] Central Africa
Percher (Diplacodes sp.) male.jpg (Selys, 1883) Madagascar
Diplacodes haematodes.jpg Dragonfly Diplacodes haematodes f Mareeba130404-4583.jpg Diplacodes haematodes (Burmeister, 1839) scarlet percher[4] Australia (except Tasmania), Timor, New Guinea, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.
Diplacodes lefebvrii (Male), Futala Lake, Nagpur.jpg Davidraju IMG 5088.jpg Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842) black percher[6] Africa and southern Eurasia.
Diplacodes luminans Barbet 2013 01 26.jpg Diplacodes luminans (Karsch, 1893) luminous percher, barbet, barbet percher[7] Central Africa
Male Diplacodes melanopsis flank (30322432343).jpg Female Black-faced Percher (15822865640).jpg Diplacodes melanopsis (Martin, 1901) black-faced percher[4] Eastern Australia
Black Tipped Ground Skimmer (Diplacodes Nebulosa) male., ചുട്ടിനിലത്തൻ. (23900114388).jpg Black tipped ground skimmer female (36857328406).jpg Diplacodes nebulosa (Fabricius, 1793) charcoal-winged percher[4] Asia and northern Australia
Diplacodes pumila Dwarf Percher 2013 02 03 09 30.JPG Diplacodes pumila Dwarf Percher 2013 02 03 14 15.JPG Diplacodes pumila Dijkstra, 2006 dwarf percher[8] Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Navás, 1915 Africa
Blue dragon sal.jpg Chalky Percher (Diplacodes trivialis) female - Flickr - Graham Winterflood.jpg Diplacodes trivialis (Rambur, 1842) chalky percher,[4] ground skimmer[9] India

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 [307]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1889.tb00016.x – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ^ "Genus Diplacodes Kirby, 1889". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  3. ^ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The complete field guide to dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8.
  5. ^ Clausnitzer, V.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Suhling, F. (2016). "Diplacodes deminuta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T59863A84817476. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59863A84817476.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  7. ^ Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Diplacodes luminans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T184261A83894418. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T184261A83894418.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. ^ Clausnitzer, V.; Clausnitzer, V. & Suhling, F. (2010). "Diplacodes pumila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T168013A6442446. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T168013A6442446.en.
  9. ^ Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India (PDF).
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