Megaloprepus

Genus of damselflies

Megaloprepus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Megaloprepus
Rambur, 1842

Megaloprepus is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are four species distributed from Mexico to Ecuador & Peru.[1]

Species include:

  • Megaloprepus brevistigma Selys, 1860
  • Megaloprepus caerulatus (Drury, 1782)
  • Megaloprepus diaboli Feindt & Hadrys, 2022
  • Megaloprepus latipennis Selys, 1860

References

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  1. ^ Feindt, W., & Hadrys, H. (2022). The damselfly genus Megaloprepus (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae): Revalidation and delimitation of species-level taxa including the description of one new species. Zootaxa, 5115(4): 487-510.
Taxon identifiers
Megaloprepus
  • Wikidata: Q5115740
  • Wikispecies: Megaloprepus
  • BioLib: 228799
  • BOLD: 102722
  • EoL: 16193
  • GBIF: 1421951
  • iNaturalist: 132160
  • IRMNG: 1016342
  • ITIS: 591763
  • NCBI: 263993
  • Open Tree of Life: 889476
  • Plazi: D076D419-B558-FF9B-FF23-F1B02085FE4B


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