Coenagrion is a genus of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae,[Lam, Ed. Damselflies of the Northeast, Forest Hill:Biodiversity Press, 2004.]). Species of Coenagrion are generally medium-sized, brightly coloured damselflies.
Species
The genus
Coenagrion includes the following species:
[ Coenagrion. funet.fi][[2] Zygoptera]
Biology
Thermal adaptation
This genus's capacity for phenotypically plastic responses to the surface air temperature is important to species' ranges.
These thermal responses will also decide a great deal of these species' responses to climate change.
Nilsson-Örtman
et al., 2012 find a high degree of thermal adaptation in high
latitude populations of
Coenagrion.
They found similar plasticity even for various
sympatric species at the same locations, and despite the highly variable weather at such latitudes.
