Agriocnemis is a genus of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae.[2] Agriocnemis is distributed widely across Africa, South-east Asia, Indonesia, Australia and islands in the Pacific.[3] They are small insects, commonly known as wisps.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Agriocnemis Selys, 1877[1] |
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mature male, Cook Islands
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immature male, Cook Islands
Species
editThe genus Agriocnemis includes the following species:[4]
- Agriocnemis aderces Lieftinck, 1932
- Agriocnemis alcyone Laidlaw, 1931
- Agriocnemis angolense Longfield, 1947
- Agriocnemis angustirami Pinhey, 1974
- Agriocnemis argentea Tillyard, 1906 - silver wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis carmelita Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis clauseni Fraser, 1922
- Agriocnemis corbeti Kumar & Prasad, 1978
- Agriocnemis dabreui Fraser, 1919
- Agriocnemis dissimilis D'Andrea & Carfi, 1997
- Agriocnemis dobsoni Fraser, 1954 - tropical wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis exilis Selys, 1872 - little wisp[5]
- Agriocnemis exsudans Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis falcifera Pinhey, 1959 - white-masked wisp[5]
- Agriocnemis femina (Brauer, 1868) - pinhead wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis forcipata Le Roi, 1915
- Agriocnemis gratiosa Gerstäcker, 1891 - gracious wisp[5]
- Agriocnemis interrupta Fraser, 1927
- Agriocnemis inversa Karsch, 1899
- Agriocnemis keralensis Peters, 1981
- Agriocnemis kunjina Watson, 1974 - Pilbara wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis lacteola Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis luteola Navás, 1936
- Agriocnemis maclachlani Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis merina Lieftinck, 1965
- Agriocnemis minima Selys, 1877
- Agriocnemis naia Fraser, 1923
- Agriocnemis nana Laidlaw, 1914
- Agriocnemis palaeforma Pinhey, 1959
- Agriocnemis pieli Navás, 1933
- Agriocnemis pieris Laidlaw, 1919
- Agriocnemis pinheyi Balinsky, 1963 - Pinhey's wisp[5]
- Agriocnemis pygmaea (Rambur, 1842) - pygmy wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis ruberrima Balinsky, 1961
- Agriocnemis rubricauda Tillyard, 1913 - red-rumped wisp[3]
- Agriocnemis salomonis Lieftinck, 1949
- Agriocnemis sania Nielsen, 1959
- Agriocnemis splendidissima Laidlaw, 1919
- Agriocnemis thoracalis Sjöstedt, 1917
- Agriocnemis victoria Fraser, 1928
- Agriocnemis zerafica Le Roi, 1915
References
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- ^ Selys-Longchamps, E. (1877). "Synopsis des Agrionines, 5me légion: Agrion (suite et fin). Les genres Telebasis, Argiocnemis et Hemiphlebia". Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Académie Royale de Belgique. 2 (in French). 43: 97–159 [134] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Genus Agriocnemis Selys, 1877". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g Günther Theischinger; John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8.
- ^ *Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ a b c d Samways, Michael J. (2008). Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa. Pensoft. ISBN 978-954-642-330-6.