Map Snapshot
1,444 Records
Status
Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) is a common habitat generalist skimmer through much of eastern North America. The bluish-black males are distinctive. This species can be found at ponds, lakes, slower sections of creeks, or even bogs or wooded swamps. Slaty Skimmer is common through much of Maryland (Richard Orr's The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia). There are records from all counties.
Seasonality Snapshot
Source: Wikipedia
| Libellula incesta | |
|---|---|
| |
| Male | |
| |
| Female | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Libellulidae |
| Genus: | Libellula |
| Species: | L. incesta
|
| Binomial name | |
| Libellula incesta Hagen, 1861
| |
Libellula incesta, the slaty skimmer, is a dragonfly of the skimmer family, native to eastern United States and southern Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. Adults are 5.28 cm (2.08 in) long. Mature males are dark blue with black heads. Females and juveniles have brown abdomens with a darker stripe down their backs. Adults fly from June to August.[1] Larvae are habitat specialists, found in the benthos of permanent lakes. [2]
References
[edit]- ^ Mead, Kurt. 2009. Dragonflies of the North Woods, Duluth, MN:Kollath+Stensaas.
- ^ McCauley, S. J. (2007). "The Role of Local and Regional Processes in Structuring Larval Dragonfly Distributions across Habitat Gradients". Oikos. 116 (1). [Nordic Society Oikos, Wiley]: 121–133. JSTOR 40234985. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
 | This article related to Libellulidae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |