Jewels

Chlorocyphidae is a family of damselflies in the superfamily Calopterygoidea, commonly known as jewels or heliodors. Members of the family are typically small to medium-sized damselflies with brightly coloured bodies and often conspicuous wing markings. They inhabit forest streams and rivers throughout the Old World tropics, with their greatest diversity occurring in Southeast Asia.

Many species are noted for their metallic colours and elaborate courtship displays, with males using brightly coloured wings and body markings in territorial and mating behaviour. Chlorocyphidae is one of the most distinctive damselfly families and is consistently recovered as a monophyletic lineage in both morphological and molecular studies.