Cordulephyidae is a small family of dragonflies occurring in Africa and Australia.[3][4] Members of Cordulephyidae can be small to tiny, black and yellow dragonflies.[5]
| Cordulephyidae | |
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| Mating Cordulephya pygmaea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Superfamily: | Libelluloidea |
| Family: | Cordulephyidae Tillyard, 1917[1][2] |
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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.[6]
Genera edit
The family includes the following genera:
- Cordulephya Selys, 1870
- Neophya Selys, 1881
References edit
- ^ Tillyard, R.J. (1917). "On some new dragonflies from Australia and Tasmania (Order Odonata)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 42: 450–479 [467]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.4860 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Dijkstra, K.D.B.; et al. (2013). "The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 36–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9. hdl:10072/61365. Archived from the original on 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
- ^ "Family CORDULEPHYIDAE". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ Bechly, G. (1996). "Morphologische Untersuchungen am Flügelgeäder der rezenten Libellen und deren Stammgruppenvertreter (Insecta; Pterygota; Odonata) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Phylogenetischen Systematik und des Grundplanes der Odonata". Petalura. Special volume 2: 1–402.
- ^ Theischinger, Günther; Hawking, John (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-64309-073-6.
- ^ Schorr, Martin; Paulson, Dennis. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 6 March 2017.