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Chlorolestes

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Chlorolestes is a genus of damselflies in the family Synlestidae. They are commonly known as Malachites.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderOdonata
  5. FamilySynlestidae
Observations recorded4,303

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
148
Family
Synlestidae
Collections
AM
Recorded in
South Africa

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Chlorolestes is a genus of damselflies in the family Synlestidae. They are commonly known as Malachites.

The genus is endemic to southern Africa; furthermore, the range of only one species, Chlorolestes elegans, extends further north than north-eastern South Africa.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chlorolestes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.