Damselfly
Banded Demoiselle ( Calopteryx splendens ), female
- Demoiselles ( Calopterygidae )
- Pond Virgin ( Lestidae )
- Spring Dragonflies ( Platycnemididae )
- Slim Dragonflies ( Coenagrionidae )
Damselflies or dragonflies ( Zygoptera ) are a suborder of dragonflies ( Odonata ), which are subdivided into 19 families with about 2600 species.
- 4.1 Family and species in Europe
Features
In Europe, the Zygoptera most a wingspan of 70 mm, the smallest species measures only 19 mm. Her body is slim. Her eyes are on the side of the head, are button-shaped and never touch each other up. Damselflies lay their wings at rest on top of the chest down together, back directly over the abdomen. By the oblique construction of the thorax this rest position without a wing joint, as have the Neuflügler possible. Front and rear wings have almost the same shape. Your flight is in contrast to the dragonfly is relatively slow and seems fluttering and irregular.
The larvae of the damselfly have on the abdomen end several leaf-shaped attachments that serve to assist breathing, but also as a rudder organs for locomotion in water.
Way of life
The larvae live in water. The hemimetabolic animals lead after hatching from a " maiden flight ", where they often wander far from the breeding waters. The adult animals are found, however, also mostly in the vicinity of water.
Nutrition
The adults and larvae are predators.
Others
All species of dragonflies are particularly protected in the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Species Protection Ordinance. Whether the Larvalhäute the last molting, the exuviae, may be collected, or whether for a special permit is required, is not yet finally decided.
Superfamilies and families
An established and accepted in many areas classification:
- Hemiphlebioidea Hemiphlebiidae
- Coenagrionidae
- Isostictidae
- Platycnemididae
- Platystictidae
- Protoneuridae
- Pseudostigmatidae
- Lestidae
- Lestoideidae
- Megapodagrionidae
- Perilestidae
- Pseudolestidae
- Synlestidae
- Amphyipterygidae
- Calopterygidae
- Chlorocyphidae
- Dicteriadidae
- Euphaeidae
- Polythoridae
Families and species in Europe
- Demoiselles - Calopterygidae Blue-winged Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo
- Banded Demoiselle - Calopteryx splendens
- Southwest Demoiselle - Calopteryx xanthostoma ( Mediterranean )
- Bronze Demoiselle - Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis ( Mediterranean )
- Common Winter Dragonfly - Sympecma fusca
- Siberian Winter Dragonfly - Sympecma paedisca
- Shiny Emerald Damselfly Lestes dyas
- Common Emerald Damselfly - Lestes sponsa
- Small Emerald Damselfly - Lestes virens
- Southern Emerald Damselfly - Lestes barbarus
- Dark Emerald Damselfly - Lestes macrostigma
- Pastures Bridesmaid - Leste ( Chalcolestes ) viridis
- Eastern pastures Bridesmaid - Leste ( Chalcolestes ) parvidens ( South East Europe)
- Blue Federlibelle - Platycnemis pennipes
- White feather dragonfly - Platycnemis latipes ( West Europe)
- Orange Red Federlibelle - Platycnemis acutipennis (Southern Europe)
- Early Adonislibelle - Pyrrhosoma nymphula
- Scarlet Dragonfly - Ceriagrion tenellum
- Dwarf Dragonfly - Nehalennia speciosa
- Tailed Damselfly - Ischnura elegans
- Small -tailed Damselfly - Ischnura pumilio
- Spanish -tailed Damselfly - Ischnura graellsii ( Iberian Peninsula, Southern France)
- Island - tailed Damselfly - Ischnura genei ( Western Mediterranean )
- Cup Bridesmaid - Erythromma lindenii
- Large garnet eye - Erythromma najas
- Small Damselfly - Erythromma viridulum
- Common Blue Damselfly - Enallagma cyathigerum
- Bird Azurjungfer - Coenagrion ornatum
- Helm Azurjungfer - mercuriale Coenagrion
- Hood Azurjungfer - Coenagrion armatum
- Azure Damselfly - Coenagrion puella
- Bat Damselfly - Coenagrion pulchellum
- Javelin Azurjungfer - Coenagrion hastulatum
- Moon Azurjungfer - Coenagrion lunulatum
- Southern Damselfly - Coenagrion caerulescens ( Mediterranean )
- Fork Damselfly - Coenagrion scitulum ( Mediterranean )