Synlestidae

{{Short description|Family of damselflies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Chlorolestes tessellatus 2012 04 29 KZN Midlands.jpg

|image_caption = Chlorolestes tessellatus

| taxon = Synlestidae

| authority = Tillyard, 1917{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24947979|title=The biology of dragonflies (Odonata or Paraneuroptera)|last=Tillyard|first=R.J.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1917|location=Cambridge|pages=396 [82]|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.35170}}

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The Synlestidae are a family of damselflies{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Synlestidae|title=Family SYNLESTIDAE|date=2014|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=1 April 2017}}{{Cite journal|last=Dijkstra|first=K.D.B.|display-authors=etal|year=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=http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/viewFile/zootaxa.3703.1.9/4279|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3703|issue=1|pages=36–45|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9|hdl=10072/61365|hdl-access=free}}

commonly known as sylphs or malachites.[http://www.mdfrc.org.au/bugguide/display.asp?type=5&class=17&subclass=&Order=5&family=96&couplet=0 Synlestidae.] Identification & Ecology of Australian Freshwater Invertebrates. Murray-Darling Basin Authority. They occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, Asia and the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.Vasilenko, D. V. (2005). [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dmitry_Vassilenko/publication/238798001_New_Damselflies_%28Odonata_Synlestidae_Hemiphlebiidae%29_from_the_Mesozoic_Transbaikalian_Locality_of_Chernovskie_Kopi/links/00463526e682c9f4c0000000.pdf New damselflies (Odonata: Synlestidae, Hemiphlebiidae) from the Mesozoic Transbaikalian locality of Chernovskie Kopi.] Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 39(3), 280-83.