Diplacodes

{{Short description|Genus of dragonflies}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

|name=Perchers

|image=Diplacodes haematodes.jpg

|image_caption=Male scarlet percher

|taxon=Diplacodes

|authority=Kirby, 1889{{Cite journal|last=Kirby|first=W.F.|year=1889|title=A revision of the subfamily Libellulinae, with descriptions of new genera and species|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31019704|journal=Transactions of the Zoological Society of London|volume=12|pages=249–348 [307]|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1889.tb00016.x|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

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Diplacodes is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family.{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Diplacodes|title=Genus Diplacodes Kirby, 1889|date=2012|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=27 February 2017}}

They are commonly known as perchers. Their colours range from the totally black body of the African Diplacodes lefebvrii, the lovely pale blue of India's Diplacodes trivialis, to the intense red of the Asian–Australian Diplacodes haematodes.

Various species of this genus occur in Africa, Asia, Australia and the South West Pacific. They are generally small in size.