Cryptophaea Hämäläinen, 2003

Phan, Quoc Toan, Kompier, Tom, Karube, Haruki & Hayashi, Fumio, 2018, A synopsis of the Euphaeidae (Odonata: Zygoptera) of Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species of Euphaea, Zootaxa 4375 (2), pp. 151-190 : 166

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7A4595B8-9FDF-41A9-9C39-A8A4A83FF302
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5985017
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/006F87D3-FFEA-EC17-B594-FD33FC63D0D5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cryptophaea Hämäläinen, 2003
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Genus Cryptophaea Hämäläinen, 2003

This is a small genus with only 3 described species, consisting of Cryptophaea saukra Hämäläinen, 2003 from Thailand, C. yunnanensis ( Davies & Yang, 1996) from southern China and C. vietnamensis (van Tol & Rozendaal, 1995) from Vietnam and Laos. This genus was established by Hämäläinen (2003) and has the following characteristics: a small and slender thorax, narrow hyaline wings, a very long abdomen, long petiolated wings, HW slightly shorter than FW, and pterostigma of FW and HW almost identical.