Heliocypha

Life-forms

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: Zygoptera
Superfamilia: Calopterygoidea

Familia: Chlorocyphidae
Genus: Heliocypha
Species: H. angusta – H. biforata – H. biseriata – H. bisignata – H. fenestrata – H. mariae – H. nubecula – H. perforata – H. vantoli – H. yunnanensis
Name

Heliocypha Fraser, 1949
References

Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Kalkman, V.J., Dow, R.A., Stokvis, F.R. & Tol, J. van 2014. Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata). Systematic Entomology 39(1): 68–96. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12035 Open access. Reference page.
Hämäläinen, M. 2016. Description of Heliocypha vantoli spec. nov. from Siberut in the Mentawai Islands (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae). Zootaxa 4079(4): 495–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.4.9 Full article (PDF).Reference page.
Paulson, D. 2014. List of Odonata of the World. Revised 1 December 2014. University of Puget Sound. Online. Reference page.
Xu, Q-H. 2015: Description of the final stadium larva of Heliocypha perforata perforata (Percheron), with discussion of the taxonomic characters of the larvae of the genus Heliocypha Fraser (Odonata: Zygoptera: Chlorocyphidae). Zootaxa 3926(1): 137–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.8. Reference page.
Zhou, X.; Zhou, W-B. 2004. A new species of the cenus [genus] Heliocypha from Yunnan Province of China (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae). Wuyi Science Journal 20: 136–138.

Heliocypha is a genus of jewel damselflies in the family Chlorocyphidae. There are about nine described species in Heliocypha, found in Indomalaya.[1][2][3][4]
Species

These nine species belong to the genus Heliocypha:

Heliocypha angusta (Hagen in Selys, 1853)
Heliocypha biforata (Selys, 1859)
Heliocypha biseriata (Selys, 1859)
Heliocypha bisignata (Hagen in Selys, 1853)
Heliocypha fenestrata (Wiedemann in Burmeister, 1839)
Heliocypha mariae (Lieftinck, 1930)
Heliocypha nubecula (Lieftinck, 1948)
Heliocypha perforata (Percheron, 1835) (Common Blue Jewel)
Heliocypha vantoli Hämäläinen, 2016

References

"Heliocypha". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
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. doi:10.1111/syen.12035.
"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

Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.
Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014933-3.