Chalcopteryx

Chalcopteryx
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Suborder:	Zygoptera
Family:	Polythoridae
Genus:	Chalcopteryx Selys, 1853

Chalcopteryx is a genus of damselflies in the family Polythoridae. There are about five described species in Chalcopteryx.

Species

These five species belong to the genus Chalcopteryx:

• Chalcopteryx machadoi Costa, 2005 ^{c g}
• Chalcopteryx radians Ris, 1914 ^{i c g}
• Chalcopteryx rutilans (Rambur, 1842) ^{i c g}
• Chalcopteryx scintillans McLachlan, 1870 ^{i c g}
• Chalcopteryx seabrai Santos and Machado, 1961 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Abbott, John C. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691113647.
• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Ball-Damerow, J.E.; Oboyski, P.T.; Resh, V.H. (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys (482): 67–89. Bibcode:2015ZooK..482...67B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.482.8453. PMC 4337221. PMID 25709531.
• Lam, Ed (2004). Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books. ISBN 978-0975401507.
• Nikula, Blair; Loose, Jennifer L.; Burne, Matthew R. (2003). Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife.
• Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-014933-8.
• Westfall, Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (1996). Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 0-945417-93-4.