''Brachythemis'' is a genus of

dragonflies A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...

in the family

Libellulidae The chasers, darters, skimmers, and perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest family of dragonflies. It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily M ...

. They are commonly known as groundlings.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Taxonomy

The banded groundling is one of Africa's most familiar and abundant dragonflies. It has only recently been identified as being two separate species, ''B. leucosticta'' and the new

taxon In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and ...

''B. impartita''.

References

Libellulidae Taxa named by Friedrich Moritz Brauer Anisoptera genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Libellulidae-stub