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Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71] Modern poems with the damselfly as a subject include a 1994 poem by August Kleinzahler, which contains the lines "And that blue there, cobalt / a moment, then iridescent, / fragile as a lady's pin / hovering above the ...
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 ...
Calopterygidae is a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. [2] They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, [3] demoiselles, or jewelwings. [4] These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the ...
The genus contains the following species: [3] [4] Calopteryx aequabilis Say, 1839 – River Jewelwing [5]; Calopteryx amata Hagen, 1889 – Superb Jewelwing [5]; Calopteryx angustipennis (Hagen in Selys, 1853) – Appalachian Jewelwing [5]
Platycnemis acutipennis is the only European damselfly which combines an orange-red abdomen and blue eyes. [4] The male has moderately wide hind tibias (wider in both P. pennipes and P. latipes; and the males of both those species have blue abdomens). [4] The thorax is buff-coloured with black stripes. There is an orange spot near the tip of ...
Calopteryx aequabilis, the river jewelwing, is a species of broad-winged damselfly.The species was first described by Thomas Say in 1839. [2] It is one out of the 170 species of the Odonata found from northeastern Alberta to Newfoundland and southward in most of northern part the United States.
Diphlebia coerulescens, known as the sapphire rockmaster, [3] is an Australian species of broad winged damselfly. [4] It is one of a group known as the azure damselflies.It is found in Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales in eastern Australia, where it is found in fast-flowing streams and rivers.
Amphiagrion saucium, the eastern red damsel, is a species of narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in North America. [2] [3] [1] [4] The IUCN conservation status of Amphiagrion saucium is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable. The IUCN status was reviewed in ...