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The Protoneurid Damselflies (Odonata: Protoneuridae) of South Africa

Compiled by Tanza Crouch and Tessa Hedge

Department of Entomology & Arachnology, Durban Natural Science Museum, P O Box 4085, Durban, 4000 South Africa
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Family: PROTONEURIDAE Tillyard, 1917

  1. Genus: ELATTONEURA Cowley 1936: 517
    1. E. frenulata (Hagen in Sélys)
      Disparoneura frenulata Hagen, in Sélys 1860: Bull. Acad. r. Belg. (2)10: 444
      Western Cape (endemic population) and Angola; October to February

    2. E. glauca (Sélys)
      Disparoneura glauca Sélys 1860: Bull. Acad. r. Belg. (2)10: 443
      = Disparoneura mutata Sélys 1886: 164
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga, and Northern Province to equatorial Africa; October to May



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