Tauriphila

Tauriphila is a composed of five kinds of dragonflies genus of the subfamily Panta Linae and was first described in 1889 by William Forsell Kirby. The distribution area extends mainly over the northern and central South and Central America north to the border of the United States.

Features

Tauriphila species reach lengths between 40 and 50 millimeters and are mainly colored red to dark brown. The wings are transparent and have a small brown spot at the base of the hind wing on. In the forewing the last Antenodalader goes only halfway.

Habitat

The representatives of the Tauriphila often fly in community with representatives of the genera Miathyria, Pantala and Tramea. They fly over persistent fields.

System

The genus was first established in 1889 by William Forsell Kirby on the basis of a dragonfly known as Tramea iphigenia until then. However, already a redefinition based on the Tauriphila australis was founded in 1910 by Muttkowski made. The distinction between the types is argo to the Tauriphila and Tauriphila xiphea not controversial. With those two species but is as Ris in 1913 executed uncertainty about their relationship. The following species belong to the genus Tauriphila

• Tauriphila argo
• Tauriphila australis
• Tauriphila azteca
• Tauriphila authorized
• Tauriphila xiphea