Echo (damselfly)

Short description: Genus of damselflies

Echo

Echo margarita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Odonata
Suborder:  | Zygoptera
Family:  | Calopterygidae
Subfamily:  | Calopteryginae
Tribe:  | Mnaisini
Genus:  | Echo
Selys, 1853

Echo is a genus of damselflies belonging to the family Calopterygidae. There are five species.[1] A sixth, Echo maxima, is sometimes included, but it probably belongs to a different genus.[2]

This genus is distributed in Asia, especially Southeast Asia.[1]

Species include:[1]

* Echo candens Zhang, Hämäläinen, & Cai, 2015
* Echo margarita Selys, 1853
* Echo modesta Laidlaw, 1902
* Echo perornata Yu & Hämäläinen, 2012
* Echo uniformis Selys, 1879[3]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zhang, H. M., Hämäläinen, M., & Cai, Q. H. (2015). Description of Echo candens sp. nov. from western Yunnan, China (Odonata: Calopterygidae). Odonatologica 44(1-2), 107-116.
2. ↑ Yu, X. and Hämäläinen, M. (2012). A description of Echo perornata spec. nov. from Xizang (Tibet), China (Odonata: Calopterygidae). Zootaxa 3218 40-46.
3. ↑ Dow, R. A. 2009. Echo uniformis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 January 2016.

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