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Spreadwings and allies
Lestidae
The Lestidae are a rather small family of cosmopolitan, large-sized, slender damselflies, known commonly as the spreadwings or spread-winged damselflies.
9 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 151 known species
Pond Spreadwings
genusLestes
Willow Spreadwings
genusChalcolestes
Ringtails
genusAustrolestes
Winter Damsels
genusSympecma
Stream Spreadwings
genusArchilestes
Indolestes
genusIndolestes
Orolestes
genusOrolestes
Platylestes
genusPlatylestes
Sinhalestes
genusSinhalestes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 47930.