Austrolestes (ab austro + Graeco λῃστής 'latro'[1][2]) est genus insectorum familiae Lestidarum subordinis Zygopterorum.[3] Invenitur in Australia, Nova Zelandia, certisque Australasiae regionibus.
Magnitudo est media ad magnam. Mas est caeruleus clarissimus et niger; femina, sordidior.[4][5] Alis omnino plicatis sedent, contra species generis Lestis, quae alas procul a corpore tollunt.[1]
Generi sunt undecim species descriptae:[6]
- Austrolestes aleison Watson & Moulds, 1979
- Austrolestes analis (Rambur, 1842)
- Austrolestes annulosus (Selys, 1862)
- Austrolestes aridus (Tillyard, 1908)
- Austrolestes cingulatus (Burmeister, 1839)
- Austrolestes colensonis (White, 1846)
- Austrolestes insularis Tillyard, 1913
- Austrolestes io (Selys, 1862)
- Austrolestes leda (Selys, 1862)
- Austrolestes minjerriba Watson, 1979
- Austrolestes psyche (Hagen in Selys, 1862)
- Theischinger, Günther, et John Hawking. 2006. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood Victoriae: CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 978-0-64309-073-6.
- Watson, J. A. L., Günther Theischinger, et H. M. Abbey. 1991. The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melburni: CSIRO. ISBN 0643051368.