Lestes

Taxobox
name = "Lestes"


image_caption = female "L. sponsa"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Odonata
familia = Lestidae
genus = "Lestes"

"Lestes" is a genus of damselfly in family Lestidae. The family hold their wings at about 45 degrees when resting instead of 90 degrees (parallel to each other) as is most common with damselflies.

The genus contains the following species:
* "Lestes alacer"
* "Lestes alfonso"
* "Lestes amicus"
* "Lestes angularis"
* "Lestes apollinaris"
* "Lestes auripennis"
* "Lestes auritus"
* "Lestes australis"
*"Lestes barbarus" (Southern Emerald Damselfly)
* "Lestes basidens"
* "Lestes bipupillatus"
* "Lestes concinnus"
* "Lestes congener"
* "Lestes curvatus"
* "Lestes debellardi"
* "Lestes dichrostigma"
* "Lestes disjunctus"
* "Lestes dissimulans"
* "Lestes dorothea"
*"Lestes dryas" (Scarce Emerald Damselfly)
* "Lestes elatus"
* "Lestes eurinus"
* "Lestes falcifer"
* "Lestes fernandoi"
* "Lestes forcipatus"
* "Lestes forficula"
* "Lestes garoensis"
* "Lestes helix"
* "Lestes henshawi"
* "Lestes ictericus"
* "Lestes inaequalis"
* "Lestes japonicus"
* "Lestes jerrelli"
* "Lestes jurzitzai"
* "Lestes macrostigma"
* "Lestes malabaricus"
* "Lestes malaisei"
* "Lestes minutus"
* "Lestes nigriceps"
* "Lestes nodalis"
* "Lestes numidicus"
* "Lestes ochraceus"
* "Lestes orientalis"
* "Lestes pallidus"
* "Lestes patricia"
* "Lestes paulistus"
* "Lestes pictus"
* "Lestes plagiatus"
* "Lestes praevius"
* "Lestes pruinescens"
* "Lestes quadristriatus"
* "Lestes rectangularis"
* "Lestes regulatus"
* "Lestes scalaris"
* "Lestes secula"
* "Lestes sigma"
* "Lestes silvaticus"
* "Lestes simplex"
* "Lestes simulans"
* "Lestes simulatrix"
* "Lestes spatula"
* "Lestes sponsa" (Emerald Damselfly)
* "Lestes spumarius"
* "Lestes sternalis"
* "Lestes stultus"
* "Lestes sutteri"
* "Lestes tarryi"
* "Lestes temporalis"
* "Lestes tenuatus"
* "Lestes thoracicus"
* "Lestes tikalus"
* "Lestes trichonus"
* "Lestes tricolor"
* "Lestes tridens"
* "Lestes umbrinus"
* "Lestes uncifer"
* "Lestes undulatus"
* "Lestes unguiculatus"
* "Lestes urubamba"
* "Lestes vidua"
* "Lestes vigilax"
* "Lestes virens"
* "Lestes virgatus"
* "Lestes viridulus"