Acisoma

Acisoma is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.

Species

It contains six species:^[1]^[2]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Acisoma ascalaphoides Rambur, 1842	littoral pintail	Madagascar
Acisoma attenboroughi Mens, Schütte, Stokvis & Dijkstra, 2016	Attenborough's pintail	Madagascar
Acisoma inflatum Selys, 1882	stout pintail	Sahara in Algeria, Egypt and Libya.
Acisoma panorpoides Rambur, 1842	Asian pintail, grizzled pintail^[3]	Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Acisoma trifidum Kirby, 1889	pied pintail, ivory pintail^[4]	Africa
Acisoma variegatum Kirby, 1898	slender pintail	Eastern and south-eastern Africa; Ethiopia to Katanga and north-eastern South Africa

^ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
^ Mens, Lotte P.; Schütte, Kai; Stokvis, Frank R.; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2016). "Six, not two, species of Acisoma pintail dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae)". Zootaxa. 4109 (2): 153–172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27394858.
^ Clausnitzer, V. & Suhling, F. (2009). "Acisoma panorpoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T59785A11988855. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T59785A11988855.en. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^ Suhling, F.; Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Acisoma trifidum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T59786A83842599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59786A83842599.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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