Austropetaliidae
| Austropetaliidae | |
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| Archipetalia auriculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Superfamily: | Aeshnoidea |
| Family: | Austropetaliidae Carle & Louton, 1994[1] |
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Austropetaliidae is a small family of dragonflies occurring in Chile, Argentina and Australia.[2][3] Members of Austropetaliidae can be medium-sized to large dragonflies.[3]
Genera
The family includes the following genera:[4]
- Archipetalia Tillyard, 1917
- Austropetalia Tillyard, 1916
- Hypopetalia McLachlan, 1870
- Phyllopetalia Selys, 1858
Taxonomy
This group was initially created for some archaic members of the family Neopetaliidae and was promoted to family rank in 1994.[2][1]
Bechly (1996) placed the genus Archipetalia in its own family, Archipetaliidae. However, this arrangement has not been widely followed, and later authors have kept Archipetalia within Austropetaliidae.[5]
Etymology
The family name Austropetaliidae is derived from the type genus Austropetalia, with the standard zoological suffix -idae used for animal families. The genus name Austropetalia combines austro- (from Latin auster, “south wind”, hence “southern”) with Petalia, a genus name derived from Greek πέταλον (petalon, “petal”).[6]
References
- ^ a b Carle, F.L.; Louton, J.A. (1994). "The larva of Neopetalia punctata and establishment of Austropetaliidae fam. nov. (Odonata)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 96 (1): 147–155 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ a b "Family AUSTROPETALIIDAE". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ a b Theischinger, Günther; Hawking, John (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-64309-073-6.
- ^ Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral. University of Alabama.
- ^ Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Bechly, Günter; Bybee, Seth M.; Dow, Rory A.; Dumont, Henri J.; Fleck, Günther; Garrison, Rosser W.; Hämäläinen, Matti; Kalkman, Vincent J.; Karube, Haruki; May, Michael L.; Orr, Albert G.; Paulson, Dennis R.; Rehn, Andrew C.; Theischinger, Günther (2013). "The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 36–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Endersby, Ian (2012). "Etymology of the Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) named by R.J. Tillyard, F.R.S." Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 134: 1–16.
