Libellulosoma Explained

Libellulosoma is a genus of dragonfly in family Corduliidae.[1] The genus is closely related to the genera Pentathemis and Aeschnosoma. The only species is Libellulosoma minutum.[2] It is endemic to Madagascar.

In 2016 L. minutum was identified in southeastern Madagascar in forest fragments around the Sainte Luce Reserve after 109 years without detection.

Notes and References

  1. Fleck . Günther . Legrand . Jean . 2013-12-09 . Notes on the genus Libellulosoma Martin, 1906, and related genera (Odonata: Anisoptera: Corduliidae) . Zootaxa . 3745 . 5 . 579 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.5.6 . 1175-5334.
  2. Hyde Roberts . Sam . Barker . Larissa . Chmurova . Lucia . Dijkstra . Klaas-Douwe B. . Schütte . Kai . 2019 . Rediscovery of Libellulosoma minutum in the littoral forests of southeast Madagascar (Odonata: Corduliidae) . Notulae odonatologicae . en . 10.5281/ZENODO.3539746 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221111012432/https://madagascar.co.uk/application/files/5815/7605/2543/Hyde-Roberts_et_al.pdf . 11 November 2022.

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