Lestoidea

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: Lestoidea
Familiae: Hemiphlebiidae – Lestidae – Perilestidae – Synlestidae – †Austroperilestidae – †Priscalestidae
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Name

Lestoidea Calvert, 1901
Synonyms

Hemiphlebioidea Kennedy, 1920
Lestinoidea

References
Additional 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.

Lestoidea is a superfamily of damselflies of the order Odonata.[2]
Note

It is important to distinguish the genus Lestoidea from superfamily Lestoidea. They have the same spelling, but the superfamily is based on the genus Lestes.
See also

List of damselflies of the world

References

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.
"Superfamily LESTOIDEA". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2017.