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Copera
Sign in to saveCopera is a genus of damselflies in the family Platycnemididae. They are distributed in Asia, especially Southeast Asia.
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to Copera, and connects out to Animalia, insect and Southeast Asia.
It sits within the topics Damselfly genera, Platycnemididae and Taxa named by William Forsell Kirby.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Platycnemididae
- Collections
- USNM, AM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Cambodia, Thailand, South Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia:Probably Sipura, Thailand?, China, Malaysia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Platycnemididae
- Image
- Copera marginipes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Copera
- taxon name
- Copera
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Copera
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Encyclopedic overview
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Copera is a genus of damselflies in the family Platycnemididae. They are distributed in Asia, especially Southeast Asia.
There are approximately 9 species in the genus. Genetic analysis suggests that some members, such as Copera ciliata, are better treated as species in the genus Platycnemis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Copera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.