Megaloprepus
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Megaloprepus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Megaloprepus Rambur, 1842 |
Megaloprepus is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Coenagrionidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are four species distributed from Mexico to Ecuador & Peru.[1]
Species include:
- Megaloprepus brevistigma Selys, 1860
- Megaloprepus caerulatus (Drury, 1782)
- Megaloprepus diaboli Feindt & Hadrys, 2022
- Megaloprepus latipennis Selys, 1860
References

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- ^ Feindt, W., & Hadrys, H. (2022). The damselfly genus Megaloprepus (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae): Revalidation and delimitation of species-level taxa including the description of one new species. Zootaxa, 5115(4): 487-510.
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