Heliocypha
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| Heliocypha | |
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| male H. bisignata, India | |
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| female H. biforata, Laos | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Chlorocyphidae |
| Genus: | Heliocypha Fraser, 1949 |
Heliocypha is a genus of jewel damselflies in the family Chlorocyphidae. There are about nine described species in Heliocypha, found in Indomalaya.[1][2][3][4]
These nine species belong to the genus Heliocypha:
- Heliocypha angusta (Hagen in Selys, 1853)
- Heliocypha biforata (Selys, 1859)
- Heliocypha biseriata (Selys, 1859)
- Heliocypha bisignata (Hagen in Selys, 1853)
- Heliocypha fenestrata (Wiedemann in Burmeister, 1839)
- Heliocypha mariae (Lieftinck, 1930)
- Heliocypha nubecula (Lieftinck, 1948)
- Heliocypha perforata (Percheron, 1835) (Common Blue Jewel)
- Heliocypha vantoli Hämäläinen, 2016
