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The Hine's emerald dragonfly recovery plan was published in 2001. At that time, the major threats to the species were habitat loss/alteration and contamination. Hine's emerald dragonflies inhabit marsh and wetland habitats, which are already rare. Further loss of habitat would disrupt the surviving populations of the species.
Corduliidae, also knowns as the emeralds, emerald dragonflies, or green-eyed skimmers, is a family of dragonflies. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes. The larvae are black, hairy-looking, and usually semiaquatic. This family include species ...
delicate emerald: Canada, northern United States [10] Somatochlora georgiana Walker, 1925: coppery emerald: eastern United States [10] Somatochlora graeseri Selys, 1887: east Asia [17] Somatochlora hineana Williamson, 1931: Hine's emerald: Ontario and midwest United States [10] Somatochlora hudsonica (Hagen in Selys, 1871) Hudsonian emerald
Kangaroo Lake State Natural Area is a nature sanctuary in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, located on and around Kangaroo Lake. [2] The land was designated a State Natural Area in 2002.
As seen in Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana), male populations use wetland habitats, while females use dry meadows and marginal breeding habitats, only migrating to the wetlands to lay their eggs or to find mating partners. Unwanted mating is energetically costly for females because it affects the amount of time that they are able ...
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
Somatochlora incurvata is a medium-sized, slender, elongate dragonfly about 5.8 cm (2.3 in) long. [2] It is larger than many other species in the genus Somatochlora. [4] The thorax and abdomen are metallic brown to black with yellowish brown spots on the sides.
Somatochlora alpestris, or the alpine emerald, is a species of dragonfly from the family Corduliidae. It is found in European highlands, southern Scandinavia , and east to southern Siberia in Asia .