Agriocnemis facts for kids
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Agriocnemis Selys, 1877 |
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Agriocnemis is a genus of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. Agriocnemis is distributed widely across Africa, South-east Asia, Indonesia, Australia and islands in the Pacific. They are small insects, commonly known as wisps.
Species
The genus Agriocnemis includes the following species:
- Agriocnemis aderces Lieftinck, 1932
- Agriocnemis alcyone Laidlaw, 1931
- Agriocnemis angolense Longfield, 1947
- Agriocnemis angustirami Pinhey, 1974
- Agriocnemis argentea Tillyard, 1906 - silver wisp
- Agriocnemis carmelita Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis clauseni Fraser, 1922
- Agriocnemis corbeti Kumar & Prasad, 1978
- Agriocnemis dabreui Fraser, 1919
- Agriocnemis dissimilis D'Andrea & Carfi, 1997
- Agriocnemis dobsoni Fraser, 1954 - tropical wisp
- Agriocnemis exilis Selys, 1872 - little wisp
- Agriocnemis exsudans Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis falcifera Pinhey, 1959 - white-masked wisp
- Agriocnemis femina (Brauer, 1868) - pinhead wisp
- Agriocnemis forcipata Le Roi, 1915
- Agriocnemis gratiosa Gerstäcker, 1891 - gracious wisp
- Agriocnemis interrupta Fraser, 1927
- Agriocnemis inversa Karsch, 1899
- Agriocnemis keralensis Peters, 1981
- Agriocnemis kunjina Watson, 1974 - Pilbara wisp
- Agriocnemis lacteola Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis luteola Navás, 1936
- Agriocnemis maclachlani Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis merina Lieftinck, 1965
- Agriocnemis minima Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis naia Fraser, 1923
- Agriocnemis nana Laidlaw, 1914
- Agriocnemis palaeforma Pinhey, 1959
- Agriocnemis pieli Navás, 1933
- Agriocnemis pieris Laidlaw, 1919
- Agriocnemis pinheyi Balinsky, 1963 - Pinhey's wisp
- Agriocnemis pygmaea (Rambur, 1842) - pygmy wisp
- Agriocnemis ruberrima Balinsky, 1961
- Agriocnemis rubricauda Tillyard, 1913 - red-rumped wisp
- Agriocnemis salomonis Lieftinck, 1949
- Agriocnemis sania Nielsen, 1959
- Agriocnemis splendidissima Laidlaw, 1919
- Agriocnemis thoracalis Sjöstedt, 1917
- Agriocnemis victoria Fraser, 1928
- Agriocnemis zerafica Le Roi, 1915
See also
In Spanish: Agriocnemis para niños
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