The Lestidae are a rather small family of cosmopolitan, large-sized, slender damselflies,[2]
known commonly as the spreadwings or spread-winged damselflies.[3]
A male Lestes dryas in the "spread-winged" posture that gives the family its common name
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^Lestidae. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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