Species list, Checklist of Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies) for Saudi Arabia (Near East)

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Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
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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 Saudi Arabia (Near East)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	278 2042 4455	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	277 2041 4453	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Palaeoptera Crampton, 1915 Ancient winged insects	6 12 16	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Odonatoptera Martynov, 1932	5 11 15	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Odonata Fabricius, 1793 Damselflies, Demoiselles, Dragonflies	5 11 15	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Zygoptera Selys, 1854 Damselflies	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Saudi Arabia
2 Families width 3 Species and 1 Subspecies

Coenagrionidae Kirby, 1890	Narrow-winged damselflies	2	Species	Taxom
Pseudostigmatidae Tillyard, 1917	Forest giants	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Saudi Arabia
3 Genera with 3 Species

Ischnura Charpentier, 1842	Forktail	1	Species	Taxom
Mecistogaster Rambur, 1869		1	Species	Taxom
Pseudagrion Selys, 1980		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Saudi Arabia
3 Species and 1 Subspecies

Ischnura senegalensis Rambur, 1842	African Bluetail
Mecistogaster jocaste jocaste Hagen, 1869
Pseudagrion arabicum Waterston, 1980

Subnodes of Zygoptera with occurrences in Saudi Arabia

Superfamily

Coenagrionoidea
Kirby, 1890

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3

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Links, sources and further information

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