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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: Orolestes
Species: O. durga – O. motis – O. octomaculatus – O. selysi – O. wallacei
Name
Orolestes McLachlan, 1895

Orolestes is a genus of stalk-winged damselflies in the family Lestidae. There are about seven described species in Orolestes.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Orolestes:

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Orolestes durga Lahiri, 1987 India
Orolestes excelsus Fraser, 1933 Thailand
Orolestes motis Baijal & Agarwal, 1956 India
Orolestes octomaculatus Martin, 1904 Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,Malaysia
Orolestes selysi McLachlan, 1895 Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, China
Lestidae (Orolestes wallacei) male (14242862012).jpg Orolestes wallacei (Kirby, 1889) Malaysia

References

"Orolestes". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Dow, Rory A.; Stokvis, Frank R.; et al. (2014). "Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)". Systematic Entomology. 39 (1): 68–96. doi:10.1111/syen.12035.
"Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.

"World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.
Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014933-3.
Westfall, Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (1996). Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-93-4.

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