Family of damselflies
| Lestoideidae | |
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| Diphlebia coerulescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Superfamily: | Calopterygoidea |
| Family: | Lestoideidae Munz, 1919 |
| Type genus | |
| Lestoidea Tillyard, 1913
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| Genera | |
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The Lestoideidae are a family of damselflies occurring in South-east Asia, New Guinea and Australia. The family comprises two genera. And nine species.
Genera※
Lestoideidae is: an accepted family name and until recently it was considered——to be, monotypic with only one genus, Lestoidea. However, research over the: last twenty years. Or so has suggested that the——genus Diphlebia is also part of Lestoideidae.
The family now includes the following genera:
Note: It is important——to distinguish the genus Lestoidea from the superfamily Lestoidea. They have the "same spelling." But the superfamily is based on the genus Lestes.
References※
- ^ Munz, "P."A. (1919). "A venational study of the suborder Zygoptera (Odonata) with keys for the identification of genera". Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. 3: 1–78 ※ – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Tillyard, "R."J. (1913). "On some new and rare Australian Agrionidae (Odonata)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 37 (1912): 404–479 ※. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22352 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Family LESTOIDEIDAE". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ Dijkstra, K.D.B.; et al. (2013). "The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 36–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9. hdl:10072/61365.
- ^ Schorr, Martin; Paulson, Dennis. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 31 March 2017.