Name - Lestes Leach 1815

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:3976 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Lestes

• Lestes Leach

• Lestes Leach, 1815

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Recent Publications

• A manual for the identification of the dragonflies & damselflies of New Guinea, Maluku, & the Solomon Islands.
• The dragonflies and damselflies of eastern Africa. Handbook for all Odonata from Sudan to Zimbabwe.
• Synopsis of Lestes from Brazil with description of Lestes demarcoi sp. nov. (Zygoptera: Lestidae).
• Why did William Elford Leach call a small damselfly a 'pirate'?-Revisiting the etymology of the genus Lestes (Odonata: Lestidae).
• New records of Lestes nigriceps Fraser, 1924 (Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India, with notes on L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and an updated key to Lestes of the Western Ghats, India.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Brewster's Edin. Ency., IX(1) 1815: 137. [Index Animalium Entry]

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