Austrolestes (ab austro + Graeco λῃστής 'latro'[1][2]) est genus insectorum familiae Lestidarum subordinis Zygopterorum.[3] Invenitur in Australia, Nova Zelandia, certisque Australasiae regionibus.


Classis : Insecta 
Subclassis : Pterygota 
Infraclassis : Palaeoptera (disputata) 
Superordo : Odonatoptera 
Ordo : Odonata 
Subordo : Zygoptera 
Superfamilia : Lestoidea 
Familia : Lestidae 
Genus : Austrolestes 
Tillyard, 1913[1]
   

Magnitudo est media ad magnam. Mas est caeruleus clarissimus et niger; femina, sordidior.[4][5] Alis omnino plicatis sedent, contra species generis Lestis, quae alas procul a corpore tollunt.[1]

Generi sunt undecim species descriptae:[6]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tillyard, R.J. (1913). "On some new and rare Australian Agrionidae (Odonata)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37 (1912): 404–479 [421] .
  2. Endersby, I. (2012). "Watson and Theischinger: the etymology of the dragonfly (Insecta: Odonata) names which they published". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 145 (443 & 444): 34–53 .
  3. Species Austrolestes leda (Selys, 1862). . Australian Faunal Directory (Australian Biological Resources Study). 2012 .
  4. Watson, Theischinger, et Abbey 1991.
  5. Theischinger et Hawking 2006.
  6. Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound .

Bibliographia

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  • Theischinger, Günther, et John Hawking. 2006. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood Victoriae: CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 978-0-64309-073-6.
  • Watson, J. A. L., Günther Theischinger, et H. M. Abbey. 1991. The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melburni: CSIRO. ISBN 0643051368.

Nexus externi

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