Lestoidea Calvert 1901
Creators: name: Bybee, Seth M.
name: Kalkman, Vincent J.
name: Erickson, Robert J.
name: Frandsen, Paul B.
name: Breinholt, Jesse W.
name: Suvorov, Anton
name: Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.
name: Cordero-Rivera, Adolfo
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Abbott, John C.
name: Herrera, Melissa Sanchez
name: Lemmon, Alan R.
name: Lemmon, Emily Moriarty
name: Ware, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestoideidae
Lestoidea

description: <i>4.1.3. Lestoidea</i> <i>(BS</i> = <i>100, PP</i> = <i>1, QS</i> = <i>0.37/0.78/1)</i> The superfamily consists of the four families Hemiphlebiidae, Perilestidae, Synlestidae and Lestidae, and is recovered as the sister group to all other damselflies with high support (BS = 100, PP = 1, QS = 0.7/ 0.75/0.99). The Australian monospecific family Hemiphlebiidae (<i>Hemiphlebia mirabilis</i>) was recovered as sister to the remaining Lestoidea, supporting previous studies (Davis et al., 2011; Dumont et al., 2010; Rehn, 2003). Dijkstra et al. (2014) found Perilestidae and Synlestidae to be paraphyletic in Bayesian analyses, but suggested this was due to the limited number of genes included in their study and retained both families, although the African genus <i>Nubiolestes</i> was transferred from Perilestidae to Synlestidae. Perilestidae (one species included herein) and Synlestidae (two species included herein) combined (BS = 100, PP = 1, QS = 1/NA/0.99) and Synlestidae by itself (BS = 100, PP = 1, QS = 1/NA/1) were monophyletic, but taxon sampling was too limited to say if this will hold up once more species are included. Lestidae is also recovered as monophyletic (BS = 100, PP = 1, QS = 1/NA/1). However, in contrast to Dijkstra et al. (2014) the genera <i>Austrolestes</i> and <i>Indolestes</i> form a fully supported monophyletic group with <i>Sympecma</i> when <i>Orolestes</i> is included (BS = 100, PP = 1, QS = 0.27/0.52/0.86). Thus, there is some support for the validity of the subfamilies Lestinae and Sympecmatinae. In contrast to other Lestidae, and uniquely within Zygoptera, the genera <i>Austrolestes</i>, <i>Indolestes</i> and <i>Sympecma</i> (but not <i>Orolestes</i>) fold their wings on one side of the abdomen at rest. Within Lestidae these threegenera are also aberrant in surviving cold (<i>Sympecma</i>, <i>Indolestes</i>) or dry periods (<i>Austrolestes</i>) as adults; thus their adult lifespan is often longer than their nymphal phase (Corbet, 1999).
description: Published as part of <i>Bybee, Seth M., Kalkman, Vincent J., Erickson, Robert J., Frandsen, Paul B., Breinholt, Jesse W., Suvorov, Anton, Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B., Cordero-Rivera, Adolfo, Skevington, Jeffrey H., Abbott, John C., Herrera, Melissa Sanchez, Lemmon, Alan R., Lemmon, Emily Moriarty &amp; Ware, Jessica L., 2021, Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics, pp. 107115 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160</i> on page 7, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107115, http://zenodo.org/record/6643504
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