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Megapodagrionidae
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Megapodagrionidae

The Megapodagrionidae are a family of damselflies, commonly called flatwings for their habit of spreading out the hind wings horizontally when at rest. They belong to the superfamily Calopterygoidea.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 29 known species

Teinopodagrion

genusTeinopodagrion

Allopodagrion

genusAllopodagrion

Megapodagrion

genusMegapodagrion

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85886.