Euphaea

Euphaea
Euphaea decorata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Euphaeidae
Subfamily: Euphaeinae
Genus:
Selys, 1840

Euphaea is a genus of damselflies in the family Euphaeidae. There are more than 30 described species in Euphaea, found mainly in Indomalaya.[1][2][3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Euphaea:[1]

  • Euphaea ameeka van Tol & Norma-Rashid, 1995
  • Euphaea amphicyana Ris, 1930
  • Euphaea aspasia Selys, 1853
  • Euphaea basalis (Laidlaw, 1915)
  • Euphaea bocki McLachlan, 1880
  • Euphaea cardinalis (Fraser, 1924)
  • Euphaea cora Ris, 1930
  • Euphaea cyanopogon Hämäläinen, Kosterin & Kompier, 2019
  • Euphaea decorata Hagen in Selys, 1853 (black-banded gossamerwing)
  • Euphaea dispar Rambur, 1842 (nilgiri torrent dart)
  • Euphaea formosa Hagen in Selys, 1869
  • Euphaea fraseri (Laidlaw, 1920)
  • Euphaea guerini Rambur, 1842
  • Euphaea hirta Hämäläinen & Karube, 2001
  • Euphaea impar Selys, 1859 (blue-sided satinwing)
  • Euphaea inouei Asahina, 1977
  • Euphaea lara Krüger, 1898
  • Euphaea masoni Selys, 1879
  • Euphaea modigliani Selys, 1898
  • Euphaea ochracea Selys, 1859
  • Euphaea opaca Selys, 1853 (sooty gossamerwing)
  • Euphaea ornata (Campion, 1924)
  • Euphaea pahyapi Hämäläinen, 1985
  • Euphaea pseudodispar Sadasivan & Bhakare, 2021
  • Euphaea refulgens Hagen in Selys, 1853
  • Euphaea sanguinea Kompier & Hayashi, 2018
  • Euphaea saola Phan & Hayashi, 2018
  • Euphaea splendens Hagen in Selys, 1853
  • Euphaea subcostalis Selys, 1873
  • Euphaea subnodalis (Laidlaw, 1915)
  • Euphaea superba Kimmins, 1936
  • Euphaea thosegharensis Sadasivan & Bhakare, 2021
  • Euphaea tricolor Selys, 1859
  • Euphaea variegata Rambur, 1842
  • Euphaea wayanadensis Anooj, Susanth, & Sadasivan, 2025[4]
  • Euphaea yayeyamana Matsumura & Oguma, 1913

References

  1. ^ a b Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Euphaea". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  3. ^ 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. Bibcode:2014SysEn..39...68D. doi:10.1111/syen.12035.
  4. ^ Anooj, S.S.; Susanth, C.; Sadasivan, Kalesh; Bhakare, Shriram Dinkar; Sawant, Dattaprasad; Nair, Vinayan Padmanabhan (2025). "A new species of Euphaea Selys, 1840 (Odonata, Euphaeidae) from Wayanad, Western Ghats, Kerala, India". Entomon. 50 (1): 73–84. doi:10.33307/entomon.v50i1.1416.

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.
  • Media related to Euphaea at Wikimedia Commons