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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Polythoridae |
| Genus: | Polythore Calvert, 19171 |
Polythore is a genus of damselflies in the family Polythoridae. There are over 20 described species in Polythore.2345
Species
The following species are currently placed in Polythore:5
- Polythore albistriata Bota-Sierra & Sánchez Herrera, 2023
- Polythore aurora (Selys, 1879) i c g
- Polythore batesi (Selys, 1869) i c g
- Polythore beata (McLachlan, 1869) i c g
- Polythore boliviana (McLachlan, 1878) i c g
- Polythore chiribiquete (Zloty & Pritchard, 2001)
- Polythore concinna (McLachlan, 1881) i c g
- Polythore derivata (McLachlan, 1881) i c g
- Polythore gigantea (Selys, 1853) i c g
- Polythore koepckei Börzsöny, 2013
- Polythore lamerceda Bick and Bick, 1985 i c g
- Polythore manua Bick and Bick, 1990 i c g
- Polythore mutata (McLachlan, 1881) i c g
- Polythore neopicta Bick and Bick, 1990 i c g
- Polythore ornata (Selys, 1879) i c g
- Polythore picta (Rambur, 1842) i c g
- Polythore procera (Selys, 1869) i c g
- Polythore spaeteri Burmeister and Börzsöny, 2003 i c g
- Polythore terminata Fraser, 1946 i c g
- Polythore vexilla Tennessen, 2024
- Polythore victoria (McLachlan, 1869) i c g
- Polythore vittata (Selys, 1869) i c g
- Polythore williamsoni (Förster, 1903) i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,2 c = Catalogue of Life,3 g = GBIF,4
Etymology
The genus name Polythore was introduced by Calvert in 1917 as a replacement for Thore Selys, 1853, which was preoccupied by a name previously used for a genus of spiders. Calvert stated that the name Polythore refers to the denser wing venation of its members compared with other genera in the group.1
References
References
- Calvert, Philip P. (1917). "Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. VIII. A new genus allied to Cora". Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 28: 259–263 [263].
- "Polythore Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- "Browse Polythore". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- "Polythore". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral. University of Alabama. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
Further reading
Further reading
- Abbott, John C. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691113647.
- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Ball-Damerow, J.E.; Oboyski, P.T.; Resh, V.H. (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys (482): 67–89. Bibcode:2015ZooK..482...67B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.482.8453. PMC 4337221. PMID 25709531.
- Lam, Ed (2004). Damselflies of the Northeast. Biodiversity Books. ISBN 978-0975401507.
- Nikula, Blair; Loose, Jennifer L.; Burne, Matthew R. (2003). Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife.
- Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume I: Zygoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 110. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-014933-8.
- Westfall, Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (1996). Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 0-945417-93-4.