Coryphagrion grandis | |
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Conservation status | |
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Superfamily: | Calopterygoidea |
Family: | Coryphagrionidae |
Genus: | Coryphagrion |
Species: | C. grandis |
Binomial name | |
Coryphagrion grandis Morton, 1924 |
Coryphagrion grandis is a species of damselfly found in coastal forests and on the lower slopes of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. Its monotypic genus Coryphagrion is considered as the only member of the family Coryphagrionidae (sometimes placed in the Megapodagrionidae as subfamily Coryphagrioninae). It was once placed within the family Pseudostigmatidae, whose other members are all Neotropical, but further studies showed this family was paraphyletic.
References
- Fincke, Ola M. (2006). "Use of Forest and Tree Species, and Dispersal by Giant Damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae): Their Prospects in Fragmented Forests" (PDF). In Adolfo Cordero Rivera (ed.). Fourth WDA International Symposium of Odonatology, Pontevedra (Spain), July 2005. Sofia—Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. pp. 103–125. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
- Clausnitzer, V. 2010. Coryphagrion grandis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 29 August 2014.
- Groeneveld, Linn F.; Clausnitzer, Viola; Hadrys, Heike (2007). "Convergent evolution of gigantism in damselflies of Africa and South America? Evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42 (2): 339–346. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.040. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 16945555.
- Toussaint, Emmanuel F.A.; Bybee, Seth M.; Erickson, Robert; Condamine, Fabien L. (2019). "Forest Giants on Different Evolutionary Branches: Ecomorphological Convergence in Helicopter Damselflies". Evolution. 73 (5): 1045–1054. doi:10.1111/evo.13695. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 30734925. S2CID 73426853.
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Coryphagrion grandis |
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