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Platystictoidea
Platystictidae is a family (biology), family of damselfly, damselflies, commonly known as shadowdamsels. They look very similar to the threadtail damselfly family (Protoneuridae). They can mostly be found throughout Asia, Central America, and South America. Most members of this family live in dense forests in the tropics where they are found around streams. Their wings are narrow and their abdomen slender and elongated. The adults probably do not disperse far as many species are known from a single location or have small ranges and there are probably other species as yet undescribed. The oldest members of the family belong to the genus ''Mesosticta'' from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Taxonomy Platystictidae has 10 genera with over 200 species and is the only family in the superfamily Platystictoidea. See also * List of damselflies of the world (Platystictidae) References {{Taxonbar, from1=Q2215068, from2=Q21076668 Platystictidae, Odonata familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damselfly
Damselflies are flying insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies (which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Epiprocta) but are usually smaller and have slimmer bodies. Most species fold the wings along the body when at rest, unlike dragonflies which hold the wings flat and away from the body. Damselflies have existed since the Late Jurassic, and are found on every continent except Antarctica. All damselflies are predatory insects: both nymphs and adults actively hunt and eat other insects. The nymphs are aquatic, with different species living in a variety of freshwater habitats including acidic bogs, ponds, lakes and rivers. The nymphs moult repeatedly, at the last moult climbing out of the water to undergo metamorphosis. The skin splits down the back, they emerge and inflate their wings and abdomen to gain their adult form. Their presence on a body of water indicates that it is relatively unpolluted, but their dependence on fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platystictidae
Platystictidae is a family of damselflies, commonly known as shadowdamsels. They look very similar to the threadtail damselfly family ( Protoneuridae). They can mostly be found throughout Asia, Central America, and South America. Most members of this family live in dense forests in the tropics where they are found around streams. Their wings are narrow and their abdomen slender and elongated. The adults probably do not disperse far as many species are known from a single location or have small ranges and there are probably other species as yet undescribed. The oldest members of the family belong to the genus '' Mesosticta'' from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ... of Myanmar. Taxonomy Platystictidae has 10 genera with over 200 spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platystictoidea
Platystictidae is a family (biology), family of damselfly, damselflies, commonly known as shadowdamsels. They look very similar to the threadtail damselfly family (Protoneuridae). They can mostly be found throughout Asia, Central America, and South America. Most members of this family live in dense forests in the tropics where they are found around streams. Their wings are narrow and their abdomen slender and elongated. The adults probably do not disperse far as many species are known from a single location or have small ranges and there are probably other species as yet undescribed. The oldest members of the family belong to the genus ''Mesosticta'' from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. Taxonomy Platystictidae has 10 genera with over 200 species and is the only family in the superfamily Platystictoidea. See also * List of damselflies of the world (Platystictidae) References {{Taxonbar, from1=Q2215068, from2=Q21076668 Platystictidae, Odonata familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protoneuridae
Protoneuridae was formerly considered a family (biology), family of damselfly, damselflies. Recent taxonomic revisions have classified the species previously placed in Protoneuridae into two existing families - Coenagrionidae and Platycnemididae, both in the superfamily Coenagrionoidea. Along with Pseudostigmatidae, New World Protoneuridae are now sunk in Coenagrionidae and Old World Protoneuridae in Platycnemididae. Genera The family Protoneuridae contained more than twenty genera. The following genera are now in the family Coenagrionidae: *''Amazoneura'' Machado, 2004 *''Drepanoneura'' von Ellenrieder & Garrison, 2008 *''Epipleoneura'' Williamson, 1915 *''Epipotoneura'' Williamson, 1915 *''Forcepsioneura'' Lencioni, 1999 *''Idioneura'' Selys, 1860 *''Lamproneura'' De Marmels, 2003 *''Microneura'' Hagen ''in'' Selys, 1886 *''Neoneura'' Selys, 1860 *''Peristicta'' Hagen ''in'' Selys, 1860 *''Phasmoneura'' Williamson, 1916 *''Proneura'' Selys, 1889 *''Protoneura'' Selys ''in'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odonata Families
Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the ''Epiophlebia'' damsel-dragonflies). The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies (Anisoptera) usually being bulkier with large compound eyes together and wings spread up or out at rest, while damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are usually more slender with eyes placed apart and wings folded together along body at rest. Adult odonates can land and perch, but rarely walk. All odonates have aquatic larvae called naiads or nymphs, and all of them, larvae and adults, are carnivorous and are almost entirely insectivorous, although at the larval stage they will eat anything that they can overpower, including small fish, tadpoles, and even adult newts. The adults are superb aerial hunters and their legs are specialised for catching prey in flight. Odonata in its narrow sense forms a subgroup of the broader Odonatoptera, which contains other dragonfly-like insects. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Damselflies Of The World (Platystictidae)
*'' Ceylonosticta alwisi'' *'' Ceylonosticta anamia'' *'' Ceylonosticta bine'' *''Ceylonosticta mirifica'' *''Ceylonosticta mojca'' *''Ceylonosticta nancyae'' *''Ceylonosticta rupasinghe'' *''Ceylonosticta venusta'' *'' Drepanosticta actaeon'' *'' Drepanosticta adami'' *'' Drepanosticta amboinensis'' *'' Drepanosticta anascephala'' *'' Drepanosticta annandalei'' *'' Drepanosticta annulata'' *'' Drepanosticta arcuata'' *'' Drepanosticta aries'' *'' Drepanosticta attala'' *'' Drepanosticta auriculata'' *'' Drepanosticta austeni'' *'' Drepanosticta barbatula'' *'' Drepanosticta bartelsi'' *'' Drepanosticta belyshevi'' *'' Drepanosticta berinchangensis'' *'' Drepanosticta berlandi'' *'' Drepanosticta bicolor'' *'' Drepanosticta bicornuta'' *'' Drepanosticta bifida'' *'' Drepanosticta bispana'' *'' Drepanosticta brincki'' *'' Drepanosticta brownelli'' *'' Drepanosticta carmichaeli'' *'' Drepanosticta ceratophora'' *'' Drepanosticta claaseni'' *'' Drepanosticta clavata'' *'' Drepanostic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to the potential role of the amber trade in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found in the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretaceous series (stratigraphy), Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the stratigraphic column deposited during the corresponding age. Both age and stage bear the same name. As a unit of geologic time measure, the Cenomanian Age spans the time between 100.5 and 93.9 million years ago (Mya). In the geologic timescale, it is preceded by the Albian and is followed by the Turonian. The Upper Cenomanian starts around at 95 Mya. The Cenomanian is coeval with the Woodbinian of the regional timescale of the Gulf of Mexico and the early part of the Eaglefordian of the regional timescale of the East Coast of the United States. At the end of the Cenomanian, an anoxic event took place, called the Cenomani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion of the Americas. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Drake Passage; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territory, dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one administrative division, internal territory: French Guiana. The Dutch Caribbean ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and Trinidad and Tobago are geologically located on the South-American continental shel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually defined as consisting of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Within Central America is the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from southern Mexico to southeastern Panama. Due to the presence of several active geologic faults and the Central America Volcanic Arc, there is a high amount of seismic activity in the region, such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, which has resulted in death, injury, and property damage. Most of Central America falls under the Isthmo-Colombian cultural area. Before the Spanish expedition of Christopher Columbus' voyages to the Americas, hundreds of indigenous peoples made their homes in the area. From the year 1502 onwards, Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
