Elattoneura
| African threadtails | |
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| Elattoneura glauca | |
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| Genus: | Elattoneura Cowley, 1935
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Elattoneura, the African threadtails, is a genus of damselflies in the family Platycnemididae.[1] They were formerly placed in genus Prodasineura,[2] but form a distinct clade. The adults are smallish and delicately built damselflies, and their males have very wide heads (cf. Platycnemis and Copera).[2] The adults are typically found in sheltered locations beside or over running water, though a few prefer calmer water with much detritus. There appears to be two groups with differing habitat preferences. Those with pruinose (i.e. frosty grey or white) faces and mostly blue eyes occupy watercourses in open terrain, while those with black or brightly coloured faces are found along forested streams.[2]
Species[]
There are over 30 species which include:[3]
- – goldsmith threadtail[4]
- Elattoneura caesia – jungle threadtail
- Elattoneura cellularis
- Elattoneura centralis
- Elattoneura frenulata – sooty threadtail
- Elattoneura glauca – common threadtail, grey threadtail
- – rock threadtail[4]
- Elattoneura leucostigma – smoky-winged threadtail
- Elattoneura nigra – black threadtail
- Elattoneura oculata – two-spotted threadtail
- Elattoneura pasquinii
- Elattoneura souteri
- – stout threadtail[4]
- Elattoneura tenax
- Elattoneura tetrica
References[]
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- ^ Dijkstra, K. D. B., Kalkman, V. J., Dow, R. A., Stokvis, F. R., & Van Tol, J. (2014). Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology, 39(1), 68-96.
- ^ a b c Dijkstra, K.-D.B. "Genus Elattoneura Cowley, 1935 - African threadtails". addo.adu.org.za. frican Dragonflies and Damselflies Online. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Elattoneura. Catalogue of Life, 29 January 2016.
- ^ a b c Dijkstra, K. D. B., Kipping, J., & Meziere, N. (2015). Sixty new dragonfly and damselfly species from Africa (Odonata). Odonatologica 44(4), 447-678.
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