Platystictidae

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: Platystictoidea

Familia: Platystictidae
Subfamiliae: Palaemnematinae - Platystictinae - Protostictinae - Sinostictinae
Overview of genera (10)

Ceylonosticta – Drepanosticta – Indosticta – Palaemnema – Platysticta – Protosticta – Sinosticta – Sulcosticta – Telosticta – Yunnanosticta –
Name

Platystictidae Kennedy, 1920
References

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Bedjanič, M., Coniff, K., Dow, R.A., Stokvis, F.R., Verovnik, R. & van Tol, J. 2016. Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Platystictidae of Sri Lanka (Insecta: Odonata). Zootaxa 4182(1): 1–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4182.1.1. Reference page.
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.
Dow, R.A. & Zhang, H-M. 2018. Yunnanosticta gen. nov., from Yunnan, a new genus from the Sinostictinae, with the description of two new species (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae). Zootaxa 4375(4): 567–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.4.6 Reference page.
Orr, A.G. & Dow, R.A. 2015. Description of two final stadium platystictid larvae from Borneo, including that of Drepanosticta ?attala Lieftinck, identified using DNA barcoding (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae). Zootaxa 3985(4): 565–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.5 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Orr, A.G. & Dow, R.A. 2015. Description of two final stadium platystictid larvae from Borneo, including that of Drepanosticta ?attala Lieftinck, identified using DNA barcoding (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae). Zootaxa 3985(4): 565–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.5 ERRATUM: Zootaxa 4013(4): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.10 PDF. Reference page.

Platystictidae is a family of damselflies, commonly known as shadowdamsels. They look very similar to the threadtail damselfly family (Protoneuridae). They can mostly be found throughout Asia, Central America, and South America.

Most members of this family live in dense forests in the tropics where they are found around streams. Their wings are narrow and their abdomen slender and elongated. The adults probably do not disperse far as many species are known from a single location or have small ranges and there are probably other species as yet undescribed.[1]

The oldest members of the family belong to the genus Mesosticta from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar.
See also

List of damselflies of the world (Platystictidae)

References

Paulson, Dennis (2009). Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West. Princeton University Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-4008-3294-1.