Pyrrhosoma

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: Zygoptera
Superfamilia: Coenagrionoidea

Familia: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Pyrrhosoma
Species: P. elisabethae – P. nymphula
Name

Pyrrhosoma Charpentier, 1840
Synonyms

Moroagrion Needham & Gyger 1939

References

Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Kalkman, V.J. 2013. The ‘African’ genus Argiagrion is a Brazilian Leptagrion species and the ‘Philippine’ Moroagrion a European Pyrrhosoma (Odonata: Coenagrionidae). International Journal of Odonatology, 16 :189–191. DOI: 10.1080/13887890.2013.799990
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 Reference page.
Guan, Z.; Dumont, H.J.; Yu, X.; Han, B.P.; Vierstraete, A. 2013. Pyrrhosoma and its relatives: a phylogenetic study (Odonata: Zygoptera). International Journal of Odonatology 16(3): 247–257. Preview Reference page.
Paulson, D. 2014. List of Odonata of the World. Revised 1 December 2014. University of Puget Sound. Online. Reference page.

Pyrrhosoma is a genus of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It contains the following species:

Pyrrhosoma elisabethae Schmidt, 1948 – Greek Red Damselfly
Pyrrhosoma latiloba Yu, Yang & Bu, 2008
Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Sulzer, 1776) – Large Red Damselfly
Pyrrhosoma tinctipenne (McLachlan, 1894)

Pyrrhosoma nymphula

References

Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
"Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.