Xanthocnemis

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: Xanthocnemis
Species: X. sinclairi – X. sobrina – X. tuanuii – X. zealandica
Name

Xanthocnemis Tillyard, 1913

Xanthocnemis zealandica, common redcoat damselfly

References

Marinov, M., Amaya-Perilla, C., Howell, G.I., Varsani, A., Bysterveldt, K.V., Kraberger, S., Stainton, D., Dayaram, A., Curtis, N., Cruickshank, R.H. & Paterson, A.M. 2016. Geometric morphometrics and molecular systematics of Xanthocnemis sobrina (McLachlan, 1873) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) and comparison to its congeners. Zootaxa 4078(1): 84–120. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.9 Reference page.

Xanthocnemis is a genus of narrow-winged damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae. There are at least two described species in Xanthocnemis, found in New Zealand.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These two species belong to the genus Xanthocnemis:

Xanthocnemis tuanuii Rowe, 1981 (Chatham Redcoat Damselfly)
Xanthocnemis zealandica (McLachlan, 1873) (Common Redcoat Damselfy)

References

"Xanthocnemis". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
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.