Platylestes

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

Familia: Lestidae
Subfamilia: Lestinae
Genus: Platylestes
Species: P. heterostylus – P. pertinax – P. platystylus – P. praecellens – P. praemorsus – P. quercifolius
Name
Platylestes Selys, 1862

Platylestes is a genus of stalk-winged damselflies in the family Lestidae. There are at least five described species in Platylestes.[1][2][3][4][5]
Species

These four species belong to the genus Platylestes:

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Platylestes heterostylus Lieftinck, 1932		Java
		Platylestes kirani Emiliyamma, Palot & Charesh, 2020		Kerala, South India.
		Platylestes pertinax Lieftinck, 1932		Bengal and Myanmar
		Platylestes platystylus (Rambur, 1842)		Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Kerala, South India.

References

"Platylestes". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
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.

K.G. Emiliyamma; Palot, Muhamed Jafer; C. Charesh (2020-09-26). "A new species of Platylestes Selys (Odonata: Zygoptera: Lestidae) from the coastal area of Kannur District, Kerala, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 12 (13): 16854–16860. doi:10.11609/jott.5209.12.13.16854-16860. ISSN 0974-7907.