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Duckweed Firetail (Telebasis byersi) is found through much of the southeastern coastal plain in wetlands with abundant duckweed. Maryland appears to be near the northern terminus of its range. It is recorded from Caroline County and from Worcester County (Richard Orr's Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia). As this species is only known from a handful of sites, it is ranked as S1 (highly state rare) in Maryland.
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Duckweed Firetails, Worcester County, MD, 7/26/2008
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Jim Brighton.
Duckweed Firetail in Caroline Co., Maryland (7/24/2009). (c) Rick Cheicante, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Rick Cheicante.
Duckweed Firetail in Calvert Co., Maryland (7/24/2022). (c) Jenny Glenn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Source: Wikipedia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Telebasis |
| Species: | T. byersi
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| Telebasis byersi (Westfall, 1957)
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The duckweed firetail (Telebasis byersi) is a small species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is native mainly to the southeastern United States, but its distribution extends north to Illinois and west to New Mexico.[1] It is 25–31 millimetres (0.98–1.22 in) long and red in color.
References
[edit]- ^ Telebasis byersi. NatureServe. 2012.
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