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Hine's emerald. The Hine's emerald (Somatochlora hineana) is an endangered dragonfly species found in the United States and Canada. [4] Populations exist in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ontario, and Wisconsin. [1] Larvae are found in shallow, flowing water in fens and marshes, and often use crayfish burrows. [5]
Genus: Somatochlora. Species: S. ozarkensis. Binomial name. Somatochlora ozarkensis. Bird, 1933. Somatochlora ozarkensis, the Ozark emerald is a species of dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. It is endemic to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the United States, [2] where its natural habitat in rivers.
The green darner or common green darner[5] (Anax junius), after its resemblance to a darning needle, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. One of the most common and abundant species throughout North America, it also ranges south to Panama. [6] It is well known for its great migration distance from the northern United States south ...
Gomphidae. The Gomphidae are a family of dragonflies commonly referred to as clubtails or club-tailed dragonflies. The family contains about 90 genera and 900 species found across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. [2] The name refers to the club-like widening of the end of the abdomen (abdominal segments 7 through 9).
Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies (as well as the Epiophlebia damsel-dragonflies). The two major groups are distinguished with dragonflies (Anisoptera) usually being bulkier with large compound eyes together and wings spread up or out at rest, while damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) are usually more slender with eyes placed apart and ...
Species: P. longipennis. Binomial name. Pachydiplax longipennis. (Burmeister, 1839) The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is widely distributed throughout North America and into the Bahamas.
Aeshnidae. Genus: Anax. Species: A. longipes. Binomial name. Anax longipes. Hagen, 1861. The comet darner (Anax longipes) is a common species of dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae.
Libellulidae. The chasers, darters, skimmers and perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest family of dragonflies. [2] It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily Macromiinae. Even if these are excluded (as Silsby does), there remains a family of ...