Species list, Checklist of Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies) for Cape Peninsula (Western Cape)

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 Cape Peninsula (Western Cape)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	211 830 1111	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	211 830 1111	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Palaeoptera Crampton, 1915 Ancient winged insects	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Odonatoptera Martynov, 1932	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Odonata Fabricius, 1793 Damselflies, Demoiselles, Dragonflies	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Zygoptera Selys, 1854 Damselflies	2 2 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape Peninsula
2 Families width 2 Species

Megapodagrionidae Tillyard, 1917	Flatwing	1	Species	Taxom
Chlorolestidae Fraser, 1960		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Peninsula
2 Genera with 2 Species

Argiolestes Selys, 1913		1	Species	Taxom
Chlorolestes Selys, 1862	Malachites	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Peninsula
2 Species

Argiolestes macrostylis Ris, 1913
Chlorolestes conspicuus Hagen, 1862	Conspicuous Malachite

Subnodes of Zygoptera with occurrences in Cape Peninsula

Superfamily

Lestoidea
Calvert, 1901
Bluestreaks

2
2
2

Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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