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Idionychidae
Idionyx is a genus of dragonflies and the only genus in the family Idionychidae. The genus comprises about 30 recognised species distributed from the Himalayas and the Western Ghats of India through Southeast Asia to southern China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and the Greater Sunda Islands. They inhabit shaded forest streams and are characterised by their metallic green bodies, relatively large heads and long legs.
1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 30 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1655231.