Species list, Checklist of Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies) for Ascension (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Suborder Zygoptera Selys, 1854 (Damselflies)
and region Ascension (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	118 288 421	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	118 288 421	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Palaeoptera Crampton, 1915 Ancient winged insects	3 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Odonatoptera Martynov, 1932	2 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Odonata Fabricius, 1793 Damselflies, Demoiselles, Dragonflies	2 3 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Zygoptera Selys, 1854 Damselflies	1 2 3	Family Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Ascension
1 Family width 3 Species

Coenagrionidae Kirby, 1890

Narrow-winged damselflies

Species

Taxom

Genera for Ascension
2 Genera with 3 Species

Argia Rambur, 2017	Dancers	2	Species	Taxom
Protoneura Selys, 1903		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Ascension
3 Species

Argia carolus Garrison & v..., 2017
Argia elongata Garrison & v..., 2017
Protoneura cara Calvert, 1903	Orange-striped Threadtail

Subnodes of Zygoptera with occurrences in Ascension

Superfamily

Coenagrionoidea
Kirby, 1890

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3

Family
Genera
Species

Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Zygoptera at artfakta.se
Zygoptera at dyntaxa.se
Zygoptera at itis.gov