Coryphagrion grandis explained

Coryphagrion grandis is a species of damselfly found in coastal forests and on the lower slopes of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.^[1] Its monotypic genus Coryphagrion is considered as the only member of the family Coryphagrionidae (sometimes placed in the Megapodagrionidae as subfamily Coryphagrioninae). It was once placed within the family Pseudostigmatidae,^[2] whose other members are all Neotropical, but further studies showed this family was paraphyletic.^[3]

References

• Fincke . Ola M. . Use of Forest and Tree Species, and Dispersal by Giant Damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae): Their Prospects in Fragmented Forests . Fourth WDA International Symposium of Odonatology, Pontevedra (Spain), July 2005 . Adolfo Cordero Rivera . 103–125 . Pensoft Publishers . 2006 . Sofia—Moscow . 2007-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070628043336/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/F/Ola.M.Fincke-1/06%20-%20Fincke.pdf . 2007-06-28 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Clausnitzer, V. 2010. Coryphagrion grandis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 29 August 2014.
2. Groeneveld. Linn F.. Clausnitzer. Viola. Hadrys. Heike. Convergent evolution of gigantism in damselflies of Africa and South America? Evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42. 2. 2007. 339–346. 10557903. 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.040. 16945555.
3. Toussaint. Emmanuel F.A.. Bybee. Seth M.. Erickson. Robert. Condamine. Fabien L.. Forest Giants on Different Evolutionary Branches: Ecomorphological Convergence in Helicopter Damselflies. Evolution. 2019. 00143820. 10.1111/evo.13695. 73. 5. 1045–1054. 30734925. 73426853.