Diplacodes

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Perchers
File:Diplacodes haematodes.jpg
Male scarlet percher
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Subfamily: Sympetrinae
Genus: Diplacodes
Kirby, 1889[1]

Diplacodes is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family.[2] They are commonly known as perchers. Their colours range from the totally black body of the African Diplacodes lefebvrii, the lovely pale blue of India's Diplacodes trivialis, to the intense red of the Asian–Australian Diplacodes haematodes.

Various species of this genus occur in Africa, Asia, Australia and the South West Pacific. They are generally small in size.

Species

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The genus Diplacodes includes the following species:[3]

Male Female Scientific name Common name Distribution
File:Male Wandering Percher (17063332425).jpg File:Female Wandering Percher bum up (15920092471).jpg Diplacodes bipunctata (Brauer, 1865) wandering percher[4] Australia
Diplacodes deminuta Lieftinck, 1969 little percher[5] Central Africa
File:Percher (Diplacodes sp.) male.jpg Diplacodes exul (Selys, 1883) Madagascar
File:Diplacodes haematodes.jpg File:Dragonfly Diplacodes haematodes f Mareeba130404-4583.jpg Diplacodes haematodes (Burmeister, 1839) scarlet percher[4] Australia (except Tasmania), Timor, New Guinea, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia.
File:Diplacodes lefebvrii (Male), Futala Lake, Nagpur.jpg File:Black percher dragonfly (2015).jpg Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur, 1842) black percher[6] Africa and southern Eurasia.
File:Diplacodes luminans Barbet 2013 01 26.jpg Diplacodes luminans (Karsch, 1893) luminous percher, barbet, barbet percher[7] Central Africa
File:Male Diplacodes melanopsis flank (30322432343).jpg File:Female Black-faced Percher (15822865640).jpg Diplacodes melanopsis (Martin, 1901) black-faced percher[4] Eastern Australia
File:Black Tipped Ground Skimmer (Diplacodes Nebulosa) male., ചുട്ടിനിലത്തൻ. (23900114388).jpg File:Black tipped ground skimmer female (36857328406).jpg Diplacodes nebulosa (Fabricius, 1793) charcoal-winged percher[4] Asia and northern Australia
File:Diplacodes pumila Dwarf Percher 2013 02 03 09 30.JPG File:Diplacodes pumila Dwarf Percher 2013 02 03 14 15.JPG Diplacodes pumila Dijkstra, 2006 dwarf percher[8] Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Diplacodes spinulosa Navás, 1915 Africa
File:Blue dragon sal.jpg File:Chalky Percher (Diplacodes trivialis) female - Flickr - Graham Winterflood.jpg Diplacodes trivialis (Rambur, 1842) chalky percher,[4] ground skimmer[9] India

References

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