Perilestidae

Perilestidae; Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Superfamily:	Lestoidea
Family:	Perilestidae; Kennedy, 1920

The Perilestidae are a family of damselflies commonly known as shortwings and twigtails.^[1] It is a small family of around 19 species.^[2] All extant species are native to the Neotropical realm. In the past Nubiolestes of Africa was included in this family,^[2] but this is doubted. Palaeoperilestes electronicus is an extinct species described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.^[3]

These damselflies are short-winged and have very long, slender, color-banded abdomens.^[1] They live in dense forest habitat and rest with their abdomens hanging vertically.^[4]

Genera[]

The family Perilestidae include the following genera:^[5]

Perilestes Hagen in Selys, 1862
Perissolestes Kennedy, 1941
† Zheng et al. 2016

References[]

^ ^a ^b Haber, W. and Wagner, D. Perilestidae: Shortwings. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ecuador.
^ ^a ^b Neiss, U. G. and Neusa, H. (2010). The larva of Perilestes attenuatus Selys, 1886 (Odonata: Perilestidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 2614 53-58.
^ 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. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.05.002. hdl:10722/231813.
^ Machado, A. (2015). Perilestes eustaquioi sp. nov. and new distributional records of Perilestidae (Odonata) in Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba), 32(5), 428-430.
^ Schorr, Martin; Paulson, Dennis. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 4 April 2017.

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[haber-1] Haber, W. and Wagner, D. Perilestidae: Shortwings. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Ecuador.

[neiss-2] Neiss, U. G. and Neusa, H. (2010). The larva of Perilestes attenuatus Selys, 1886 (Odonata: Perilestidae) from Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 2614 53-58.

[3] 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. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.05.002. hdl:10722/231813.

[4] Machado, A. (2015). Perilestes eustaquioi sp. nov. and new distributional records of Perilestidae (Odonata) in Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba), 32(5), 428-430.

[Odonata_list-5] Schorr, Martin; Paulson, Dennis. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 4 April 2017.

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