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The colorful and charismatic Painted Skimmer (Libellula semifasciata) is a very widespread dragonfly broadly distributed across eastern North America. It breeds in ponds and other still bodies of water, especially boggy ones with emergent plants, and often within forest (Paulson, 2011). Painted Skimmer has been recorded from every county in Maryland, and is considered a common species (Richard Orr's The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Maryland and the District of Columbia).
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Libellula semifasciata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
Family: | Libellulidae |
Genus: | Libellula |
Species: | L. semifasciata
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Libellula semifasciata Burmeister, 1839
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Libellula semifasciata, the painted skimmer, is an uncommon eastern North American skimmer dragonfly, found from New Brunswick, Canada as far south as Texas and Florida.[1]
It is a medium-sized species, at 43 mm (1.7 in) long. Each wing is amber coloured at the base and wing tip and has several brown spots. The abdomen has a lateral strip that is white anteriorly and yellow posteriorly.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dunkle, Sidney W. (2000). Dragonflies through Binoculars. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 174–175. ISBN 0-19-511268-7.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Libellula semifasciata at Wikimedia Commons