Neurothemis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Epiprocta
Infraordo: Anisoptera
Superfamilia: Libelluloidea

Familia: Libellulidae
Subfamilia: Sympetrinae
Genus: Neurothemis
Species: N. decora – N. disparilis – N. feralis – N. fluctuans – N. fulvia – N. intermedia – N. luctuosa – N. nesaea – N. oligoneura – N. pseudosophronia – N. ramburii – N. stigmatizans – N. terminata – N. tullia
Name
Neurothemis Brauer, 1867

Neurothemis is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.[2] They are found in India, Asia, Australia and the Pacific region.[3] Most Neurothemis species are red in color.
Species

The genus Neurothemis includes the following species:[4]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Neurothemis decora (Kaup in Brauer, 1866)		New Guinea
		Neurothemis degener Selys, 1879		East India and Myanmar
		Neurothemis disparilis Kirby, 1889		Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
		Neurothemis feralis (Burmeister, 1839)		Sumatra and Java, Indonesia.
		Neurothemis fluctuans (Fabricius, 1793)	Red Grasshawk, Common Parasol	China, Indonesia, India, Lao, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand.
		Neurothemis fulvia (Drury, 1773)	fulvous forest skimmer[5]	India to China and south to Sumatra
		Neurothemis intermedia (Rambur, 1842)	paddyfield parasol	Java, Kangean Islands and Sumba, East India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka
		Neurothemis luctuosa Lieftinck, 1942		New Guinea
		Neurothemis manadensis (Boisduval, 1835)		Sulawesi, Maluku, to western New Guinea
		Neurothemis nesaea Ris, 1911		Sulawesi, Celebes
		Neurothemis oligoneura Brauer, 1867	spotted grasshawk[6]	Australia and New Guinea
		Neurothemis papuensis Lieftinck, 1942		New Guinea
		Neurothemis ramburii (Kaup in Brauer, 1866)		Peninsular Malaysia, Taiwan, the Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei and Kalimantan), the lesser Sunda islands, and The Philippines.
		Neurothemis stigmatizans (Fabricius, 1775)	painted grasshawk[6]	Australia ( southern Queensland border to Broome, Western Australia. ) and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands
		Neurothemis taiwanensis Seehausen & Dow, 2016		Taiwan
		Neurothemis terminata Ris, 1911		Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda, and Borneo), The Philippines, and Palau.
		Neurothemis tullia (Drury, 1773)	pied paddy skimmer[5]	Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam

References

Brauer, F. (1867). "Beschreibung neuer exotischer Libellen aus den Gattungen Neurothemis, Libellula, Diplax, Celithemis und Tramea". Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 17: 3–26 [6] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
"Genus: Neurothemis Brauer, 1867". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
Watson, J.A.L.; Theischinger, G.; Abbey, H.M. (1991). The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melbourne: CSIRO. p. 278. ISBN 0643051368.
Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India (PDF).
"Checklist Australian Dragonflies and Damselflies". DragonflyPix.com. Retrieved 17 December 2010.