Superfamily Coenagrionoidea

Abstract

The Coenagrionidae in the Neotropics is represented by more than 650 species within 70 genera, of which 60 are endemic or mainly distributed in the Neotropical region (Garrison et al., 2010; Dijkstra et al., 2013). This number iscontinuously increasing; for example, in the last decade 121 new species and 11 new genera have been described. There are eight genera with more than 20 species each in the region: Acanthagrion, Argia, Epipleoneura, Neoneura,Metaleptobasis, Oxyagrion, Protoneura, and Telebasis. There are 17 monotypic genera (with only one species) in the region: Anomisma, Apanisagrion, Dolonagrion, Enacantha, Fluminagrion, Hesperagrion, Hylaeonympha, Junix, Lamproneura, Leucobasis, Megaloprepus, Proneura, Roppaneura, Schistolobos, Telagrion, Tigriagrion, and Tukanobasis. The remainder 45 genera have intermediary number of species.