Chalcolestes

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Odonatoptera
Cladus: Holodonata
Ordo: Odonata
Subordo: Zygoptera
Superfamilia: Lestoidea

Familia: Lestidae
Subfamilia: Lestinae
Genus: Chalcolestes
Species: C. parvidens – C. viridis
Name
Chalcolestes Kennedy, 1920

Chalcolestes is a small genus of damselfly in the family Lestidae. They are commonly known as Willow Spreadwings. They are similar to the Spreadwings of the genus Lestes.

The name Chalcolestes comes from Greek: χαλχοσ copper and ληστησ predator. [1]
Species

The genus contains only two species:[2]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)	Eastern Willow Spreadwing[3]	eastern Mediterranean; on Cyprus, Corsica, Crete and Sicily
		Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)	Willow Emerald Damselfly,[4] Western Willow Spreadwing[3]	Corsica, Sicily, Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, in the Maghreb in North Africa, Turkey and the Middle East

References

Costantino D’Antonio and Francesca Vegliante. "Derivatio nominis libellularum europæarum" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 3 August 2010.
Dennis Paulson; Martin Schorr; Cyrille Deliry. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
"Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
"Checklist of UK Species". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 5 August 2010.