Micromidia
{{Short description|Genus of dragonflies}}
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|authority=Fraser, 1959{{Cite journal|last=Fraser|first=F.C.|year=1959|title=New genera and species of Odonata from Australia in the Dobson Collection|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38913299|journal=The Australian Zoologist|volume=12|pages=352–361 [352]|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
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Micromidia is a genus of dragonflies in the superfamily Libelluloidea.{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Micromidia|title=Genus Micromidia Fraser, 1959|date=2022|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=1 September 2024}}
They are small to medium-sized dragonflies, coloured black or metallic green with pale markings, and endemic to eastern Australia.{{Cite book|title=The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia|last1=Theischinger|first1=Günther|last2=Hawking|first2=John|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|year=2021|isbn=9781486313747|location=Melbourne, Australia|pages=406 |edition=2nd}}
Species
The genus Micromidia includes the following species:{{World Odonata List}}
- Micromidia atrifrons {{small|(McLachlan, 1883)}} – forest mosquitohawk
- Micromidia convergens {{small|Theischinger & Watson, 1978}} – early mosquitohawk
- Micromidia rodericki {{small|Fraser, 1959}} – Thursday Island mosquitohawk
Taxonomy
Recent taxonomic research could not assign the genus Micromidia to any family and it was placed incertae sedis within the superfamily Libelluloidea.{{Cite journal |last=Dijkstra |first=Klaas-Douwe B. |last2=Bechly |first2=Günter |last3=Bybee |first3=Seth M. |last4=Dow |first4=Rory A. |last5=Dumont |first5=Henri J. |last6=Fleck |first6=Günther |last7=Garrison |first7=Rosser W. |last8=Hämäläinen |first8=Matti |last9=Kalkman |first9=Vincent J. |last10=Karube |first10=Haruki |last11=May |first11=Michael L. |last12=Orr |first12=Albert G. |last13=Paulson |first13=Dennis R. |last14=Rehn |first14=Andrew C. |last15=Theischinger |first15=Günther |last16=Trueman |first16=John W.H. |last17=Van Tol |first17=Jan |last18=von Ellenrieder |first18=Natalia |last19=Ware |first19=Jessica |date=2013 |title=The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.3703.1.9 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=3703 |issue=1 |pages=36–45 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 |doi-access=free |hdl=10072/61365 |hdl-access=free |issn=1175-5334 }}
Prior to this, Micromidia had been considered to be part of one of several families: Austrocorduliidae, Synthemistidae or Corduliidae.{{Cite book|title=The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia|last=Theischinger|first=Günther|last2=Hawking|first2=John|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|year=2006|isbn=978 0 64309 073 6|location=Collingwood, Victoria, Australia|pages=366|quote=|via=}}
See also
References
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Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser