Sympecma | |
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Male S. fusca | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Lestidae |
Genus: | Sympecma Burmeister, 1839 |
Sympecma is a genus of damselfly in the family Lestidae.
The genus contains the following species:[1]
Male | Female | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820) | Common Winter Damselfly[2] | southern and central Europe stretching out to Asia, Mediterranean in Europe and North Africa and on many Mediterranean islands | ||
Sympecma gobica Förster, 1900 | From the very east of Europe deep into Asia | |||
Sympecma paedisca (Brauer, 1877) | Siberian Winter Damsel[3] | From the Baltic countries to Japan, with western populations in the north of Germany and the Netherlands, and in the Alps and some other mountainous regions |