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The Zygoptera are an ancient group, with the earliest fossils dating to the Kimmeridgian age of the Late Jurassic, around 152 million years ago. [2] Well-preserved Eocene damselfly larvae and exuviae are known from fossils preserved in amber in the Baltic region.
Damselfly, (suborder Zygoptera), any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings.
Damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the more morphologically diverse suborder of odonates. In North America and particularly in Florida they have similar characteristics, which are: eyes separated by more than the width of a single eye, abdomen much longer than wings, very slim body structure and a simple fluttering flight.
Odonata, insect order comprising the dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera) and the damselflies (suborder Zygoptera). The adults are easily recognized by their two pairs of narrow, transparent wings, sloping thorax, and long, usually slender body; the abdomen is almost always longer than any of the wings. Large, active by day, and often strikingly ...
Common Name: Damselfly. Scientific Name: Varies. Insect Order: Odonata. Description: Damselflies have four large membranous wings of nearly equal size which are held together over their back when they are at rest except for the Lestidae, which hold them slightly open.
The Great Spreadwing is our largest damselfly. Males and females are typically different in color, with the male showing more brilliant color, though some female damsels are also brightly colored. In some species females have both a male-form and a female-form color pattern.
At right, an adult damselfly (Zygoptera). Damselfly bodies are slender by comparison, and wings are held above the body while at rest. Both dragonflies and damselflies belong to the Odonata, which is a subgroup of insects, which in turn is a group of uniramian arthropods .
Damselfly is the common name for any of the predaceous insects comprising the suborder Zygoptera of the order Odonata, characterized by an elongated body, large multifaceted eyes that are widely separated, and two pairs of strong transparent wings, which at rest typically are held folded together above the abdomen or held slightly open above ...
Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at rest.
Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies) Other Common Names. Libellule (French), Libélula (Spanish); See (1) (BG's recommended source of common and scientific names) Synonyms and other taxonomic changes. Paraneuroptera Shipley 1904. discussion on using (1) as an authority for taxonomy, common names. Numbers.