Elattoneura: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Odonata
- Family
- Platycnemididae
- Genus
- Elattoneura
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Elattoneura
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Elattoneura
Elattoneura, the African threadtails, is a genus of damselflies in the family Platycnemididae. They were formerly placed in genus Prodasineura, but form a distinct clade. The adults are smallish and delicately built damselflies, and their males have very wide heads (cf. Platycnemis and Copera). The adults are typically found in sheltered locations beside or over running water, though a few prefer calmer water with much detritus. There appears to be two groups with differing habitat preferences. Those with pruinose (i.e. frosty grey or white) faces and mostly blue eyes occupy watercourses in open terrain, while those with black or brightly coloured faces are found along forested streams.
...Elattoneura in languages:
- Thai
- สกุล แมลงปอเข็มป่า
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Allocnemis
- Arabicnemis
- Arabineura
- Archboldargia
- Arrhenocnemis
- Asthenocnemis
- Caconeura
- Calicnemia
- Coeliccia
- Copera
- Cyanocnemis
- Disparoneura
- Elattoneura
- Esme
- Hylaeargia
- Idiocnemis
- Igneocnemis
- Indocnemis
- Lieftinckia
- Lochmaeocnemis
- Macrocnemis
- Matticnemis
- Melanoneura
- Mesocnemis
- Metacnemis
- Nososticta
- Onychargia
- Palaiargia
- Papuargia
- Paracnemis
- Paramecocnemis
- Phylloneura
- Platycnemis
- Prodasineura
- Proplatycnemis
- Pseudocopera
- Rhyacocnemis
- Risiocnemis
- Salomocnemis
- Spesbona
- Stenocnemis
- Torrenticnemis
Child Taxa
- Elattoneura acuta
- Elattoneura analis
- Elattoneura atkinsoni
- Elattoneura aurantiaca
- Elattoneura aurifex
- Elattoneura balli
- Elattoneura caesia
- Elattoneura campioni
- Elattoneura cellularis
- Elattoneura centrafricana
- Elattoneura centralis
- Elattoneura coomansi
- Elattoneura dorsalis
- Elattoneura erythromma
- Elattoneura flavifacies
- Elattoneura frenulata
- Elattoneura girardi
- Elattoneura glauca
- Elattoneura incerta
- Elattoneura josemorai
- Elattoneura lapidaria
- Elattoneura leucostigma
- Elattoneura lindleyi
- Elattoneura lliba
- Elattoneura longispina
- Elattoneura mauros
- Elattoneura mayombensis
- Elattoneura morini
- Elattoneura nigerrima
- Elattoneura nigra
- Elattoneura nihari
- Elattoneura oculata
- Elattoneura odzalae
- Elattoneura pasquinii
- Elattoneura perisi
- Elattoneura pluotae
- Elattoneura pruinosa
- Elattoneura souteri
- Elattoneura tarbotonorum
- Elattoneura tenax
- Elattoneura tetrica
- Elattoneura tsiamae
- Elattoneura villiersi
- Elattoneura vittata
- Elattoneura vrijdaghi














































































