Brachythemis
Genus of dragonflies
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Brachythemis is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. They are commonly known as groundlings.
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| Brachythemis | |
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| Ditch jewel (Brachythemis contaminata) female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Libellulidae |
| Subfamily: | Sympetrinae |
| Genus: | Brachythemis Brauer, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Libellula contaminata | |
Species
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Male | Female | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |  | Brachythemis contaminata (Fabricius, 1793) | ditch jewel[3] | Asia |
 | Brachythemis fuscopalliata (Selys, 1887) | dark-winged groundling[4] | Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, and Turkey. | |
._-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire_(1).jpg) | ._Female_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg) | Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890) | northern banded groundling[5] | southern Europe and the Middle East. |
_male_(11965838824).jpg) |  | Brachythemis lacustris (Kirby, 1889) | red groundling[6] | Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. |
_male.jpg) | _female.jpg) | Brachythemis leucosticta (Burmeister, 1839) | banded groundling[7] | Eastern and central Africa and Madagascar. |
| Brachythemis wilsoni Pinhey, 1952 | Wilson's groundling[8] | Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, possibly Botswana, and possibly Kenya | ||
