Planiplax

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: Epiprocta
Infraordo: Anisoptera
Superfamilia: Libelluloidea

Familia: Libellulidae
Subfamilia: Leucorrhiniinae
Genus: Planiplax
Species: P. arachne – P. erythropyga – P. machadoi – P. phoenicura – P. sanguiniventris
Name
Planiplax Muttkowski, 1910

Planiplax is a genus of skimmers in the dragonfly family Libellulidae. There are about five described species in Planiplax.[1][2][3][4][5]
Species

These five species belong to the genus Planiplax:

Planiplax arachne Ris, 1912
Planiplax erythropyga (Karsch, 1891)
Planiplax machadoi Santos, 1949
Planiplax phoenicura Ris, 1912
Planiplax sanguiniventris (Calvert, 1907) (Mexican scarlet-tail)

References

"Planiplax Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Planiplax". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Planiplax genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"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

Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592.
Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 111. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014934-0.
Needham, James G.; Westfall Jr., Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (2000). Dragonflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-94-1.
Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.