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Platylestes
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Platylestes

The Lestidae are a rather small family of cosmopolitan, large-sized, slender damselflies, known commonly as the spreadwings or spread-winged damselflies.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Green-eyed Spreadwing

speciesPlatylestes platystylus

Kiran's spreadwing

speciesPlatylestes kirani

Platylestes heterostylus

speciesPlatylestes heterostylus

Platylestes pertinax

speciesPlatylestes pertinax

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91133.