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ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 209-227Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-012-0080-8
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Odonata; Palaearctic; Europe; Diversity; Systematics; Evolution; Biogeography; Mike May Festschrift
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Although Europe is the cradle of dragonfly systematics and despite great progress in the last 2 decades, many issues in naming its species and understanding their evolutionary history remain unresolved. Given the public interest, conservation importance and scientific relevance of Odonata, it is time that remaining questions on the species' status, names and affinities are settled. We review the extensive but fragmentary literature on the phylogeny, classification and taxonomy of European Odonata, providing summary phylogenies for well-studied groups and an ecological, biogeographic and evolutionary context where possible. Priorities for further taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographic research are listed and discussed. We predict that within a decade the phylogeny of all European species will be known.
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