Cordulephyidae is a small
family
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of
dragonflies
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threaten ...
occurring in
Africa
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and
Australia.
Members of Cordulephyidae can be small to tiny, black and yellow dragonflies.
The family Cordulephyidae is not recognised in the World Odonata List at the Slater Museum of Natural History, but rather its species are considered to be part of the
Synthemistidae family.
Genera
The family includes the following genera:
* ''
Cordulephya
''Cordulephya'' is a genus of dragonflies in the family Cordulephyidae, endemic to eastern Australia.
The species are small to tiny in size, coloured black, or purplish-black, with yellowish markings. Unusually for Anisoptera, these dragonflies ...
''
Selys, 1870
* ''
Neophya''
Selys, 1881
References
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Odonata families
Odonata of Australia
Taxa named by Robert John Tillyard