Acisoma
| Pintails | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Grizzled pintail | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Superfamily: | Libelluloidea |
| Family: | Libellulidae |
| Subfamily: | Sympetrinae |
| Genus: | Acisoma Rambur, 1842 |
Acisoma is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
Description
The colouration of Acisoma is typically brown to black and often includes contrasting bright white, green, and blue markings. They are small relative to many other dragonfly species at 16-25 mm.
Like other genera that are part of the Erythemis-group, Acisoma have an enlarged occipital triangle (the plate on the back of their head) causing their eyes to meet for less than the triangles length.[1]
Species
This genus contains six species:[2][3]
| Male | Female | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acisoma ascalaphoides Rambur, 1842 | littoral pintail | Madagascar | ||
_male.jpg) | Acisoma attenboroughi Mens, Schütte, Stokvis & Dijkstra, 2016 | Attenborough's pintail | Madagascar | |
 |  | Acisoma inflatum Selys, 1882 | stout pintail | Sahara in Algeria, Egypt and Libya. |
 |  | Acisoma panorpoides Rambur, 1842 | Asian pintail, grizzled pintail[4] | Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. |
 |  | Acisoma trifidum Kirby, 1889 | pied pintail, ivory pintail[5] | Africa |
 |  | Acisoma variegatum Kirby, 1898 | slender pintail | Eastern and south-eastern Africa; Ethiopia to Katanga and north-eastern South Africa |
References
- ↑ Mens, Lotte P.; SchüTte, Kai; Stokvis, Frank R.; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2016-05-06). "Six, not two, species of Acisoma pintail dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae)". Zootaxa. 4109 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ↑ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ↑ Mens, Lotte P.; Schütte, Kai; Stokvis, Frank R.; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2016). "Six, not two, species of Acisoma pintail dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae)". Zootaxa. 4109 (2): 153–172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27394858.
- ↑ Clausnitzer, V. & Suhling, F. (2009). "Acisoma panorpoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009 e.T59785A11988855. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T59785A11988855.en. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ↑ Suhling, F.; Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Acisoma trifidum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T59786A83842599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59786A83842599.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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