List of damselflies of the world (Protoneuridae) explained

Protoneuridae was formerly considered a family of damselflies. Recent taxonomic revisions have classified the species previously placed in Protoneuridae into two existing families - Coenagrionidae and Platycnemididae, both in the superfamily Coenagrionoidea.

New World Protoneuridae are now sunk in Coenagrionidae and Old World Protoneuridae in Platycnemididae.^[1]

Species of damselfly, formerly in Protoneuridae:

• Arabineura khalidi
• Caconeura gomphoides
• Caconeura obscura
• Caconeura ramburi
• Caconeura risi
• Caconeura t-coerulea
• Chlorocnemis abbotti
• Chlorocnemis contraria
• Chlorocnemis eisentrauti
• Chlorocnemis elongata
• Chlorocnemis flavipennis
• Chlorocnemis interrupta
• Chlorocnemis marshali
• Chlorocnemis montana
• Chlorocnemis nigripes
• Chlorocnemis nublilipennis
• Chlorocnemis pauli
• Chlorocnemis wittei
• Disparoneura apicalis
• Disparoneura canningi
• Disparoneura quadrimaculata
• Disparoneura ramajana
• Drepanoneura donnellyi
• Drepanoneura janirae
• Drepanoneura letitia
• Drepanoneura loutoni
• Drepanoneura muzoni
• Drepanoneura peruviensis
• Drepanoneura tennesseni
• Elattoneura acuta
• Elattoneura analis
• Elattoneura atkinsoni
• Elattoneura aurantiaca
• Elattoneura balli
• Elattoneura bigemmata
• Elattoneura caesia
• Elattoneura campioni
• Elattoneura centrafricana
• Elattoneura centralis
• Elattoneura coomansi
• Elattoneura dorsalis
• Elattoneura erythromma
• Elattoneura frenulata
• Elattoneura girardi
• Elattoneura glauca
• Elattoneura josemorai
• Elattoneura leucostigma
• Elattoneura lliba
• Elattoneura longispina
• Elattoneura mayombensis
• Elattoneura morini
• Elattoneura nigerrima
• Elattoneura nigra
• Elattoneura nihari
• Elattoneura pasquinii
• Elattoneura pluotae
• Elattoneura pruinosa
• Elattoneura souteri
• Elattoneura tenax
• Elattoneura tetrica
• Elattoneura tropicalis
• Elattoneura vrijdaghi
• Epipleoneura albuquerquei
• Epipleoneura capilliformis
• Epipleoneura demarmelsi
• Epipleoneura fernandezi
• Epipleoneura fuscaenea
• Epipleoneura haroldoi
• Epipleoneura humeralis
• Epipleoneura janirae
• Epipleoneura kaxuriana
• Epipleoneura lamina
• Epipleoneura machadoi
• Epipleoneura manauensis
• Epipleoneura metallica
• Epipleoneura ocuene
• Epipleoneura pallida
• Epipleoneura pereirai
• Epipleoneura protostictoides
• Epipleoneura solitaria
• Epipleoneura spatulata
• Epipleoneura tariana
• Epipleoneura uncinata
• Epipleoneura venezuelensis
• Epipleoneura waiwaiana
• Epipleoneura westfalli
• Epipleoneura williamsoni
• Epipotoneura machadoi
• Epipotoneura nehalennia
• Esme cyaneovittata
• Esme longistyla
• Esme mudiensis
• Forcepsioneura ephippigera
• Forcepsioneura garrisoni
• Forcepsioneura grossiorum
• Forcepsioneura haerteli
• Forcepsioneura itatiaiae
• Forcepsioneura juruaensis
• Forcepsioneura lucia
• Forcepsioneura sancta
• Forcepsioneura westfalli
• Idioneura ancilla
• Idioneura celioi
• Isomecocnemis cellularis
• Isomecocnemis cyanura
• Isomecocnemis subnodalis
• Junix elumbis
• Lamproneura lucerna
• Melanoneura bilineata
• Neoneura aaroni
• Neoneura amelia
• Neoneura anaclara
• Neoneura angelensis
• Neoneura bilinearis
• Neoneura carnatica
• Neoneura cristina
• Neoneura denticulata
• Neoneura desana
• Neoneura esthera
• Neoneura ethela
• Neoneura fluvicollis
• Neoneura gaida
• Neoneura joana
• Neoneura jurzitzai
• Neoneura kiautai
• Neoneura leonardoi
• Neoneura lucas
• Neoneura luzmarina
• Neoneura maria
• Neoneura mariana
• Neoneura moorei
• Neoneura myrthea
• Neoneura paya
• Neoneura rubriventris
• Neoneura rufithorax
• Neoneura schreiberi
• Neoneura sylvatica
• Neoneura waltheri
• Nososticta africana
• Nososticta astrolabica
• Nososticta atrocyana
• Nososticta aurantiaca
• Nososticta baroalba
• Nososticta beatrix
• Nososticta callisphaena
• Nososticta chalybeostoma
• Nososticta circumscripta
• Nososticta coelestna
• Nososticta commutata
• Nososticta cyanura
• Nososticta diadesma
• Nososticta dorsonigra
• Nososticta eburnea
• Nososticta egregia
• Nososticta emphyla
• Nososticta erythroprocta
• Nososticta erythrura
• Nososticta evelynae
• Nososticta exul
• Nososticta flavipennis
• Nososticta fonticola
• Nososticta fraterna
• Nososticta insignis
• Nososticta irene
• Nososticta kalumburu
• Nososticta koolpinyah
• Nososticta koongarra
• Nososticta liveringa
• Nososticta lorentzi
• Nososticta marina
• Nososticta melanoxantha
• Nososticta moluccensis
• Nososticta nigrifrons
• Nososticta nigrofasciata
• Nososticta phoenissa
• Nososticta pilbara
• Nososticta plagiata
• Nososticta plagioxantha
• Nososticta pseudexul
• Nososticta pyroprocta
• Nososticta rangifera
• Nososticta rosea
• Nososticta salomonis
• Nososticta selysi
• Nososticta silvicola
• Nososticta solida
• Nososticta solitaria
• Nososticta tarcumbi
• Nososticta thalassina
• Nososticta wallacii
• Nososticta xanthe
• Peristicta aeneoviridis
• Peristicta forceps
• Peristicta gauchae
• Peristicta jalmosi
• Peristicta janiceae
• Peristicta lizeria
• Peristicta muzoni
• Phasmoneura exigua
• Phasmoneura janirae
• Phylloneura westermanni
• Prodasineura abbreviata
• Prodasineura auricolor
• Prodasineura autumnalis
• Prodasineura coerulescens
• Prodasineura collaris
• Prodasineura croconota
• Prodasineura delicatula
• Prodasineura doisuthepensis
• Prodasineura dorsalis
• Prodasineura flammula
• Prodasineura flavifacies
• Prodasineura gracillima
• Prodasineura haematostoma
• Prodasineura hanzhongensis
• Prodasineura hosei
• Prodasineura hyperythra
• Prodasineura incerta
• Prodasineura integra
• Prodasineura interrupta
• Prodasineura laidlawii
• Prodasineura lansbergei
• Prodasineura longjingensis
• Prodasineura nigra
• Prodasineura notostigma
• Prodasineura obsoleta
• Prodasineura odoneli
• Prodasineura odzalae
• Prodasineura palawana
• Prodasineura peramoena
• Prodasineura perisi
• Prodasineura quadristigma
• Prodasineura sita
• Prodasineura tenebricosa
• Prodasineura theebawi
• Prodasineura verticalis
• Prodasineura villiersi
• Prodasineura vittata
• Proneura prolongata
• Protoneura ailsa
• Protoneura amatoria
• Protoneura aurantiaca
• Protoneura calverti
• Protoneura capillaris
• Protoneura cara
• Protoneura corculum
• Protoneura cupida
• Protoneura dunklei
• Protoneura klugi
• Protoneura macintyrei
• Protoneura paucinervis
• Protoneura peramans
• Protoneura rojiza
• Protoneura romanae
• Protoneura sanguinipes
• Protoneura scintilla
• Protoneura sulfurata
• Protoneura tenuis
• Protoneura viridis
• Protoneura woytkowskii
• Psaironeura bifurcata
• Psaironeura remissa
• Psaironeura selvatica
• Psaironeura tenuissima
• Roppaneura beckeri

Notes and References

1. Dijkstra . Klaas-Douwe B. . Bechly . Günter . Bybee . Seth M. . Dow . Rory A. . Dumont . Henri J. . Fleck . Günther . Garrison . Rosser W. . Hämäläinen . Matti . Kalkman . Vincent J. . Karube . Haruki . May . Michael L. . Orr . Albert G. . Paulson . Dennis R. . Rehn . Andrew C. . Theischinger . Günther . Trueman . John W.H. . Van Tol . Jan . von Ellenrieder . Natalia . Ware . Jessica . 2013 . The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) . Zootaxa . en . 3703 . 1 . 36–45 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 . 1175-5334 . free . 10072/61365 . free .