Mecistogaster is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Pseudostigmatidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are eleven species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.[1]
Members of this genus have very long abdomens which they use to deposit their eggs in the water-filled rosettes of bromeliads growing on trees in the forest.[2]
Species include:
Mecistogaster is a genus of large Neotropical damselflies in the family Pseudostigmatidae, commonly known as helicopter damsels. There are eleven species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.
Members of this genus have very long abdomens which they use to deposit their eggs in the water-filled rosettes of bromeliads growing on trees in the forest.
Species include:
Mecistogaster amalia (Burmeister, 1839) – Amalia Helicopter Mecistogaster amazonica Sjöstedt, 1918 Mecistogaster asticta Selys, 1860 Mecistogaster buckleyi McLachlan, 1881 – Blue-tipped Helicopter Mecistogaster jocaste Hagen, 1869 Mecistogaster linearis (Fabricius, 1776) Mecistogaster lucretia (Drury, 1773) Mecistogaster martinezi Machado, 1985 (nomen obscurum) Mecistogaster modesta Selys, 1860 Mecistogaster ornata Rambur, 1842 – Ornate Helicopter Mecistogaster pronoti Sjöstedt, 1918 – Atlantic Helicopter
