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Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Lestes
Species: L. alacer – L. alfonsoi – L. amicus – L. angularis – L. apollinaris – L. auripennis – L. auritus – L. australis – L. barbarus – L. basidens – L. belladonna – L. bipupillatus – L. concinnus – L. congener – L. curvatus – L. debellardi – L. dichrostigma – L. disjunctus – L. dissimulans – L. dorothea – L. dryas – L. elatus – L. eurinus – L. falcifer – L. fernandoi – L. forcipatus – L. forficula – L. garoensis – L. helix – L. henshawi – L. ictericus – L. inaequalis – L. japonicus – L. jerrelli – L. jurzitzai – L. macrostigma – L. malabaricus – L. malaisei – L. minutus – L. nigriceps – L. nodalis – L. numidicus – L. ochraceus – L. orientalis – L. pallidus – L. patricia – L. paulistus – L. pertinax – L. pictus – L. pinheyi – L. plagiatus – L. praevius – L. pruinescens – L. quadristriatus – L. quercifolia –L. rectangularis – L. regulatus – L. scalaris – L. secula – L. sigma – L. silvaticus – L. simplex – L. simulans – L. simulatrix – L. spatula – L. sponsa – L. spumarius – L. sternalis – L. stultus – L. sutteri – L. tarryi – L. temporalis – L. tenuatus – L. thoracicus – L. tikalus – L. trichonus – L. tricolor – L. tridens – L. umbrinus – L. uncifer – L. undulatus – L. unguiculatus – L. urubamba – L. vidua – L. vigilax – L. virens – L. virgatus – L. viridulus

Fossils species : L. aquisextana – L. arvernus – L. brisaci – L. ceresti – L. conexus – L. datangensis – L. dianacompteae – L. forsterii – L. irenea – L. leucosia – L. ligea – L. lutzi – L. peisinoe – L. plicata – L. regina – L. sieblosiformis – L. statzi – L. vicina – L. zalesskyi –
Name
Lestes Leach, 1815

Lestes is a genus of damselfly in the family Lestidae.[2] The family hold their wings at about 45 degrees to the body when resting. This distinguishes them from most other species of damselflies which hold the wings along, and parallel to, the body when at rest.

The name Lestes comes from the Greek word λῃστής (lēistēs) meaning predator.[3]

Extant Species

The genus Lestes includes the following species:[4]

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Lestes alacer 16096989.jpg Plateau spreadwing (26597137254).jpg Lestes alacer Hagen, 1861 Plateau Spreadwing[5] Central America and North America
Lestes alfonsoi González & Novelo, 2001 Central America.
Lestes amicus Martin, 1910 Congo, Tanzania, Angola
Lestes angularis Fraser, 1929 India
Lestes apollinaris Navás, 1934 Colombia,Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
Lestes auripennis Fraser, 1955 Madagascar
Lestes auritus Hagen in Selys, 1862 Brazil
Lestes australis 11286516.jpg Southern Spreadwing - Lestes australis, Big Thicket National Preserve, Kountze, Texas - 25934709655.jpg Lestes australis Walker, 1952 Southern Spreadwing[5] North America
Southern Emerald Damselfly (9285227472).jpg LestesBarbarusFemale.jpg Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798) Southern Emerald Damselfly,[6] Migrant Spreadwing[7] Europe in a band across Spain, France, Italy and Greece to India and Mongolia.
Lestes basidens Belle, 1997 Surinam
Lestes bipupillatus Calvert, 1909 Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina
A male Dusky Spreadwing damselfly.jpg A female Dusky Spreadwing damselfly.jpg Lestes concinnus Hagen in Selys, 1862 India, Southeast Asia as far as New Caledonia, and northern parts of Australia
Lestes species.jpg Lestidae - Lestes congener.JPG Lestes congener Hagen, 1861 Spotted Spreadwing[5] Canada and in the United States
Lestes curvatus Belle, 1997 Surinam
Lestes debellardi De Marmels, 1992 Surinam
Lestes dichrostigma Calvert, 1909 Brazil
Northern Spreadwing (15065316741).jpg Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus) - MacGregor Point Provincial Park 01.jpg Lestes disjunctus Selys, 1862 Northern Spreadwing[5] United States and Canada.
Lestes dissimulans Fraser, 1955 Angola; Benin; Botswana; Côte d'Ivoire; Chad; Congo-Brazzaville; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Senegal; Tanzania; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes dorothea-Thekkady-2018-09-09-001.jpg Lestes dorothea-Kadavoor-2018-08-05-002.jpg Lestes dorothea Fraser, 1924 Forest Spreadwing south and northeast India to Thailand and Malaysia
LestesDryasElderMale.jpg Scarce Emerald Damselfly (Lestes dryas) female (34515365954).jpg Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 Emerald Spreadwing,[5] Scarce Emerald Damselfly,[6] Robust Spreadwing,[7] Turlough Spreadwing[8] central Europe and Asia from France to the Pacific and across North America
Emerald spreadwing4 (lestes elatus) പച്ച ചേരാച്ചിറകൻ male.jpg Emerald spreadwing2 (lestes elatus) പച്ച ചേരാച്ചിറകൻ Female.jpg Lestes elatus Hagen in Selys, 1862 India, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Lestes eurinus 42318970.jpg Lestes eurinus Say, 1839 Amber-winged Spreadwing[5] Northeastern North America
Lestes falcifer Sjöstedt, 1918 Venezuela
Lestes fernandoi Costa, De Souza & Muzón, 2006 Brazil
Sweetflag Spreadwing (Lestes forcipatus) - MacGregor Point Provincial Park.jpg Lestes forcipatus Rambur, 1842 Sweetflag Spreadwing[5] Canada and the United States
Lestes forficula 34308859.jpg Lestes forficula Rambur, 1842 Rainpool Spreadwing[5] Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America
Lestes garoensis Lahiri, 1987 India
Lestes helix Ris, 1918 Peru, Venezuela
Lestes henshawi Calvert, 1907 Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
Lestes ictericus Gerstäcker, 1869 Benin; Côte d'Ivoire; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Gambia; Kenya; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Republic of South Africa; Senegal; South Sudan; Sudan; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Elegant spreadwing (?) (42923927762).jpg Elegant Spreadwing - Lestes inaequalis, Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge, Laurel, Maryland - 14440132944.jpg Lestes inaequalis Walsh, 1862 Elegant Spreadwing[5] eastern Canada and the United States
Lestes japonicus Selys, 1883 Japan, Korean Peninsula, Eastern Russia
Lestes jerrelli Tennessen, 1997 Ecuador
Lestes jurzitzai Muzon, 1994 Brazil
Lestes macrostigma2.jpg Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836) Dark Emerald Damselfly[9] or Dark Spreadwing[7] Europe into Central Asia and the Middle East
Lestes malabaricus Fraser.jpg Lestes malabaricus Fraser, 1929 Sri Lanka, South India and Andaman Islands
Lestes malaisei Schmidt, 1964 Myanmar
Lestes minutus Selys, 1862 Brazil, Trinidad, Venezuela
Lestes nigriceps Fraser, 1924 Cambodia
Lestes nodalis 12.jpg Lestes nodalis female.jpg Lestes nodalis Selys, 1891 Northeast India, Thailand and China.
Lestes numidicus Samraoui, Weekers & Dumont, 2003 Algeria
Lestes ochraceus Selys, 1862 Benin; Côte d'Ivoire; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; South Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes pallidus 2012 12 26.jpg Lestes pallidus Rambur, 1842 Angola; Botswana; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Chad; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Gambia; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Senegal; Somalia; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes patricia male-shrirambhakare4.jpg Lestes patricia female-shrirambhakare2.jpg Lestes patricia Fraser, 1924 Western Ghats in India
Lestes paulistus Calvert, 1909 Brazil
Lestes pictus Hagen in Selys, 1862 Brazil
Lestes pinheyi Fraser, 1955 Pinhey's Spreadwing Angola; Botswana; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Gabon; Ghana; Malawi; Namibia; Nigeria; Tanzania; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes plagiatus 2017 11 28 1524.jpg Lestes plagiatus Karuraforest 1.jpg Lestes plagiatus (Burmeister, 1839) Highland Spreadwing Angola; Botswana; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Swaziland; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes praecellens Lieftinck, 1937 Malaysia
Lestes praemorsus 5.jpg Lestes praemorsus.jpg Lestes praemorsus Hagen in Selys, 1862 India to China and south to New Guinea
Lestes praevius Lieftinck, 1940 Sabah
Lestes pruinescens Martin, 1910 Madagascar
Lestes quadristriatus Calvert, 1909 Brazil
Slender Spreadwing Lestes rectangularis.jpg Lestes rectangularis.JPG Lestes rectangularis Say, 1839 Slender Spreadwing[5] eastern Canada and the United States
Lestes regulatus Martin, 1910 Ethiopia
Lestes scalaris Gundlach, 1888 Caribbean
Lestes secula May, 1993 Panama
Lestes sigma 49198149.jpg Lestes sigma Calvert, 1901 Chalky Spreadwing[5] Central America and North America
Lestes silvaticus Schmidt, 1951 Madagascar
Lestes simplex Hagen, 1861 Mexico
Lestes simulatrix McLachlan, 1895 Madagascar
Lestes spatula Fraser, 1946 Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
Common Spreadwing. Lestes sponsa. - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg Common Emerald Damselfly female. Lestes sponsa (27721611649).jpg Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823) Emerald Damselfly,[6] Common Spreadwing[7][8] central Europe and Asia from Spain to the Pacific
Lestes spumarius Hagen in Selys, 1862 Antillean Spreadwing[5] Caribbean Sea and North America.
Lestes sternalis Navás, 1930 Colombia
Lestes stultus 6836306.jpg Lestes stultus Hagen, 1861 Black Spreadwing[5] United States
Lestes temporalis(Male,Japan,2017.11.12,c).jpg Lestes temporalis(Female,Japan,17.08.23).jpg Lestes temporalis Selys, 1883 Japan
Lestes tenuatus 22570712.jpg Lestes tenuatus Rambur, 1842 Blue-striped Spreadwing Central America, Ecuador
Lestes thoracicus Laidlaw, 1920 emerald-striped spreadwing Bangladesh, India, and Thailand
Lestes tikalus Kormoondy, 1959 Guatemala
Lestes trichonus Belle, 1997 Surinam
Lestes tricolor Erichson, 1848 British Guyana
Lestes tridens 024502-2.jpg Lestes tridens McLachlan, 1895 Spotted Spreadwing Angola; Botswana; Côte d'Ivoire; Congo-Brazzaville; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Gabon; Kenya; Liberia; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Somalia; Tanzania; Togo; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes umbrinus Selys, 1891 Myanmar
Lestes uncifer Karsch, 1899 Sickle Spreadwing Cameroon; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Gabon; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Republic of South Africa; Somalia; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes undulatus Say, 1840 Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile
Lestes unguiculatus 54807132.jpg Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861 Lyre-tipped Spreadwing[5] United States
Lestes urubamba Kennedy, 1942 Peru
Lestes vidua 28438286.jpg Lestes vidua Hagen, 1861 Carolina Spreadwing[5] United States
Swamp Spreadwing.jpg Swamp spreadwing (25647804382).jpg Lestes vigilax Hagen in Selys, 1862 Swamp Spreadwing[5] United States
2014.07.14.-08-Zadlitzgraben Pressel--Kleine Binsenjungfer-junges Maennchen.jpg 2014.07.17.-25-Zadlitzgraben Pressel--Kleine Binsenjungfer-Weibchen.jpg Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825) Small Emerald Damselfly,[9] Small Spreadwing[7] Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
Lestes virgatus 007539-1.jpg Lestes virgatus 022108-1.jpg Lestes virgatus (Burmeister, 1839) Smoky Spreadwing Angola; Botswana; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Lestes viridulus – Emerald-striped Spreadwing-milindbhakare (1).jpg Lestes viridulus – Emerald-striped Spreadwing-milindbhakare (8).jpg Lestes viridulus Rambur, 1842 Emerald-striped Spreadwing India

Fossils

Lestes aquisextana
Lestes arvernus
Lestes brisaci
Lestes ceresti
Lestes conexus
Lestes datangensis
Lestes dianacompteae
Lestes forsterii
Lestes irenea
Lestes leucosia
Lestes ligea
Lestes lutzi
Lestes peisinoe
Lestes plicata
Lestes regina
Lestes sieblosiformis
Lestes statzi
Lestes vicina
Lestes zalesskyi


See also

Chalcolestes

References

Leach, W.E. (1815). "Entomology". In Brewster, D. (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopedia. 9 (reprint 1830 ed.). Edinburgh: William Blackburn. pp. 57–172 [137].
"Genus: Lestes Leach, 1815". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
Costantino D’Antonio and Francesca Vegliante. "Derivatio nominis libellularum europæarum" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 3 August 2010.
Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
"North American Odonata". University of Puget Sound. 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
"Checklist of UK Species". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
"Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
Brian Nelson; Robert Thompson (2004). The Natural History of Ireland's Dragonflies. Ulster Museum. ISBN 978-0-900761-45-4.
Jacques d'Aguilar; Jean-Louis Dommanget; René Préchac (1986). Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain, Europe and North Africa. Collins.

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