The Calopterygid Damselflies (Odonata: Calopterygidae) of South Africa

Compiled by Tanza Crouch and Tessa Hedge

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Family: CALOPTERYGIDAE Buchecker

  1. Genus: PHAON Selys 1853: 22-23
    1. P. iridipennis iridipennis (Burmeister)
      Calopteryx iridipennis Burmeister 1839: Handb. Ent. 2(II)(2): 827
      Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Northern Province, to equatorial Africa;



This part of A Catalogue of South African Insects revised: