Soldati Lacerda, Déborah S.;Monteiro Machado, Angelo B.
Mecistogaster
Sign in to saveMecistogaster is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are eleven species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.
Species
Lemon-tipped Helicopter
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOdonata
- FamilyCoenagrionidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Collections
- USNM, YPM, UPS, INHS, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Coenagrionidae
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- Mecistogaster amalia (Burmeister) (10981544853).jpg
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Mecistogaster is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are eleven species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.
Members of this genus have very long abdomens which they use to deposit their eggs in the water-filled rosettes of bromeliads growing on trees in the forest.
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