Neurothemis
Neurothemis | |
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Fulvous Forest Skimmer | |
Pied Paddy Skimmer | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
Family: | Libellulidae |
Subfamily: | |
Genus: | Neurothemis Brauer, 1867[1] |
Neurothemis is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.[2] They are found in India, Asia, Australia and the Pacific region.[3] Most Neurothemis species are red in color.
Species[]
The genus Neurothemis includes the following species:[4]
Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Neurothemis decora (Kaup in Brauer, 1866) | New Guinea | |||
Selys, 1879 | East India and Myanmar | |||
Kirby, 1889 | Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo | |||
(Burmeister, 1839) | Peninsular Malaysia | |||
Neurothemis fluctuans (Fabricius, 1793) | Red Grasshawk, Common Parasol | China, Indonesia, India, Lao, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand. | ||
Neurothemis fulvia (Drury, 1773) | fulvous forest skimmer[5] | India to China and south to Sumatra | ||
Neurothemis intermedia (Rambur, 1842) | paddyfield parasol | Java, Kangean Islands and Sumba, East India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka | ||
Lieftinck, 1942 | New Guinea | |||
(Boisduval, 1835) | Indonesia, New Guinea | |||
Ris, 1911 | Sulawesi, Celebes | |||
Neurothemis oligoneura Brauer, 1867 | spotted grasshawk[6] | Australia and New Guinea | ||
Lieftinck, 1942 | New Guinea | |||
(Kaup in Brauer, 1866) | Peninsular Malaysia, Taiwan, the Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei and Kalimantan), the lesser Sunda islands, the Philippines, the Bismarck islands and New Guinea. | |||
Neurothemis stigmatizans (Fabricius, 1775) | painted grasshawk[6] | Australia ( southern Queensland border to Broome, Western Australia. ) | ||
Neurothemis taiwanensis Seehausen & Dow, 2016 | Taiwan | |||
Neurothemis terminata Ris, 1911 | Peninsular Malaysia and Japan to the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia | |||
Neurothemis tullia (Drury, 1773) | pied paddy skimmer[5] | Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam |
References[]
- ^ Brauer, F. (1867). "Beschreibung neuer exotischer Libellen aus den Gattungen Neurothemis, Libellula, Diplax, Celithemis und Tramea". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 17: 3–26 [6] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Genus Neurothemis Brauer, 1867". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ Watson, J.A.L.; Theischinger, G.; Abbey, H.M. (1991). The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melbourne: CSIRO. p. 278. ISBN 0643051368.
- ^ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India (PDF).
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Checklist Australian Dragonflies and Damselflies". DragonflyPix.com. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
External links[]
- Media related to Neurothemis at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Neurothemis at Wikispecies
- IDF: Morphological studies and taxonomic considerations on the ‘reddish-brown-winged’ group of Neurothemis
Categories:
- Libellulidae
- Anisoptera genera
- Odonata of Australia
- Odonata of Asia
- Insects of New Guinea
- Insects of Indonesia
- Insects of Southeast Asia
- Insects of India
- Taxa named by Friedrich Moritz Brauer