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Lestes

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Taxonomy
Lestes was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. Its type is Lestes conexus. It is the type genus of Lestidae, Lestinae.

It was reranked as Agrion (Lestes) by Heer (1849).

It was assigned to Agrion by Heer (1849); to Lestinae by Nel and Paicheler (1994); and to Lestidae by Carpenter (1992) and Simonsen et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Lestes Leach
1849Agrion (Lestes) Heer p. 55
1992Lestes Carpenter p. 85
1994Lestes Nel and Paicheler
2022Lestes Simonsen et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
Neodonatoptera
Euodonatoptera
OdonatocladaBechly 1999
Nodialata
Discoidalia
Stigmoptera
Lobodonata
Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
Euzygoptera
Lestomorpha
Lestiformia
Eulestiformia
Lestida
Lestodea
superfamilyLestoideaFraser 1957
familyLestidae
genusLestesLeach 1815

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Lestes Leach 1815
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Lestes aquisextana Nel 1985
Lestes arvernus Piton 1935
Lestes brisaci Nel et al. 1997
Lestes ceresti Nel and Papazian 1985
Lestes conexus Yan and Tang 1976
Lestes datangensis Wang 1976
Lestes dianacompteae Compte-Sart 2014
Lestes forsterii Hess 1895
Lestes irenea Nel 1987
Lestes leucosia Heer 1849
Lestes ligea Heer 1849
Lestes lutzi Nel and Paicheler 1994
Lestes peisinoe Heer 1849
Lestes plicata Piton and Théobald 1939
Lestes regina Theobald 1937
Lestes sieblosiformis Cosmovici and Pauca 1955
Lestes statzi Schmidt 1958
Lestes vicina Hagen 1858
Lestes zalesskyi Piton 1940
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available