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Coryphagrion grandis

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Species of damselfly

Coryphagrion grandis
Conservation status

Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this 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

  1. Clausnitzer, V. 2010. Coryphagrion grandis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 29 August 2014.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Coryphagrion grandis


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