Definition of Suborder Zygoptera

1. Noun. Damselflies.

Exact synonyms: Zygoptera
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Odonata, Order Odonata

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Zygoptera

suborder Reptantia
suborder Ruminantia
suborder Sauria
suborder Sauropoda
suborder Sauropodomorpha
suborder Sciuromorpha
suborder Scombroidea
suborder Scorpaenoidea
suborder Serpentes
suborder Strepsirhini
suborder Tarsioidea
suborder Theropoda
suborder Thyreophora
suborder Tyranni
suborder Xenarthra
suborder Zygoptera (current term)
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Literary usage of Suborder Zygoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"64). The illustrations just given exhibit the structure of these parts in nymphs of the suborder Anisoptera. In the suborder Zygoptera (Calopterygidae and ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1919)
"I shall deal entirely with the phenomena among the dragonflies, restricting the problem to the suborder Zygoptera. The morphological studies upon the ..."

3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"In the small species known as demoiselles (suborder Zygoptera) there are thin, flattened, leaf-like, terminal appendages of the abdomen which are adapted to ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1906)
"Observations made during the season of 1905 permit the recording of some details in the method of "coupling" in the suborder Zygoptera. ..."

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