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Lestidae

49 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Odonata › Lestidae

Lestes forcipatus Rambur, 1842

Lestes forcipatus is a medium-sized spreadwing that is hard to distinguish from the similar common spreadwing L. disjunctus.

Lestes forficula Rambur, 1842

Lestes forficula, the rainpool spreadwing, is a stable least-concern spreadwing damselfly found across the Americas.

Lestes inaequalis Walsh, 1862

Lestes inaequalis is a damselfly species with distinct male and female traits, differing from similar species by size and wing color.

Lestes pallidus Rambur, 1842

Lestes pallidus, the pallid or pale spreadwing, is a widespread African spreadwing damselfly found near pools and streams.

Lestes plagiatus (Burmeister, 1839)

Lestes plagiatus is a widespread African spreadwing damselfly found near pools, swamps, and streams.

Lestes praemorsus Hagen, 1862

Lestes praemorsus is a medium-sized damselfly that lives and breeds in well-vegetated shaded wetland habitats.

Lestes rectangularis Say, 1840

Lestes rectangularis, the slender spreadwing, is a thin native North American damselfly of the Lestidae family.

Lestes sigma Calvert, 1901

Lestes sigma, the chalky spreadwing, is a stable least-concern spreadwing damselfly found in Central and North America.

Lestes stultus Hagen, 1861

Lestes stultus, the black spreadwing, is a stable least-concern spreadwing damselfly found in North America.

Lestes tenuatus Rambur, 1842

Lestes tenuatus, the blue-striped spreadwing, is a stable, least-concern spreadwing damselfly found across the Americas.

Lestes tridens McLachlan, 1895

Lestes tridens, the spotted spreadwing, is a widespread non-threatened African damselfly that lives near lakes and swamps.

Lestes undulatus Say, 1840

Lestes undulatus is a least concern spreadwing damselfly species found in South America.

Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861

Lestes unguiculatus (lyre-tipped spreadwing) is a North American spreadwing damselfly that is IUCN least concern with a stable population.

Lestes vidua Hagen, 1861

Lestes vidua (Carolina spreadwing) is a stable least-concern spreadwing damselfly found in North America.

Lestes vigilax Hagen, 1862

Lestes vigilax, the swamp spreadwing, is a 42–55 mm long damselfly found in eastern North America, most visible May to October.

Lestes virgatus (Burmeister, 1839)

Lestes virgatus is a widespread African spreadwing damselfly that lives in forest and woodland pools and swamps.

Lestes viridulus Rambur, 1842

Lestes viridulus is a medium-sized plain-dwelling damselfly with distinct physical markings.

Lestes sponsa (Hansemann, 1823)

Lestes sponsa, the emerald damselfly, is a widespread Palaearctic damselfly common in Great Britain that lives in still or slow water.

Lestes elatus Hagen, 1862

Lestes elatus is a medium-sized damselfly with unique metallic thoracic stripes that breeds in lowland plain still water habitats.

Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)

Lestes macrostigma is a dark, blue-pruinose damselfly with large black pterostigmata, ranging from western Europe to Central Asia and the Middle East.

Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)

Lestes virens is a small metallic green damselfly of still waters, divided into two disputed northern and southern subspecies.

Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)

Sympecma fusca is a largely unmarked European damselfly that is easy to identify except next to Sympecma paedisca.

Sympecma paedisca (Brauer, 1877)

Sympecma paedisca, the Siberian winterdamsel, is a European spreadwing damselfly assessed as least concern by the IUCN.

Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)

Chalcolestes viridis is a large dark metallic green damselfly found across Europe, North Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.

Related Families

Libellulidae 293 species Coenagrionidae 181 species Gomphidae 107 species Aeshnidae 91 species Corduliidae 59 species Calopterygidae 28 species Platycnemididae 19 species Synthemistidae 13 species

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