Acisoma

Acisoma is a small genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.

Pintails
Grizzled pintail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Subfamily:	Sympetrinae
Genus:	Acisoma Rambur, 1842

Species

It contains six species:^[1][2]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Acisoma ascalaphoides Rambur, 1842	littoral pintail	Madagascar
		Acisoma attenboroughi Mens, Schütte, Stokvis & Dijkstra, 2016	Attenborough's pintail	Madagascar
		Acisoma inflatum Selys, 1882	stout pintail	Sahara in Algeria, Egypt and Libya.
		Acisoma panorpoides Rambur, 1842	Asian pintail, grizzled pintail[3]	Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
		Acisoma trifidum Kirby, 1889	pied pintail, ivory pintail[4]	Africa
		Acisoma variegatum Kirby, 1898	slender pintail	Eastern and south-eastern Africa; Ethiopia to Katanga and north-eastern South Africa