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Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies). The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies (Anisoptera) usually being bulkier with large compound eyes together and wings spread up or out at rest, while damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are usually more slender with eyes placed apart and ...
Coenagrionidae is a family of damselflies, also known as pond damselflies, in the order Odonata and the suborder Zygoptera. [2] The Zygoptera are the damselflies, which although less known than the dragonflies, are no less common. More than 1,300 species are in this family, making it the largest damselfly family.
Coenagrionoidea is a superfamily of closed wing damselflies of the order Odonata found worldwide. ... The family Pseudostigmatidae and New World Protoneuridae are now ...
Although some species of dragonfly have wide distributions, damselflies tend to have smaller ranges. Most odonates breed in fresh-water; a few damselflies in the family Caenagrionidae breed in brackish water (and a single dragonfly species breeds in seawater). [18] [19] Dragonflies are more affected by pollution than are damselflies. The ...
The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera. They are commonly known as spiketails. [2] Some vernacular names for the species of this family are biddie and flying adder. [3] They have large, brown or black bodies with yellow markings, and narrow unpatterned wings.
Epiophlebia superstes was originally considered to be part of the suborder Anisozygoptera along with the Himalayan Epiophlebia laidlawi, an intermediate clade between dragonflies and damselflies, mainly because their hind wings are very similar in size and shape to the forewings and held back over the body at rest, as in damselflies. [5]
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