Coryphagrion grandis
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Coryphagrion grandis is a species of damselfly found in coastal forests and on the lower slopes of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. Formerly considered the only member of the family Coryphagrionidae, it is now placed within family Pseudostigmatidae, whose other members are all Neotropical.
[edit] References
- Clausnitzer, V. (2005). Coryphagrion grandis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 23 June 2007.
- Fincke, Ola M. (2006). "Use of Forest and Tree Species, and Dispersal by Giant Damselflies (Pseudostigmatidae): Their Prospects in Fragmented Forests". Adolfo Cordero Rivera Fourth WDA International Symposium of Odonatology, Pontevedra (Spain), July 2005: 103-125, Sofia—Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. Retrieved on 2007-06-22.
- Groeneveld, Linn F.; Viola Clausnitzer and Heike Hadrys (2007). "Convergent Evolution of Gigantism in Damselflies of Africa and South America? Evidence from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Sequence Data [abstract]". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42 (2): 339-46. doi:.
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