Erythrodiplax ochracea
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Erythrodiplax ochracea is a species of dragonfly in the genus Erythrodiplax from the subfamily Sympetrinae . It flies in Mexico , Belize , Honduras , Nicaragua , Panama , Colombia , Venezuela , Guiana , Brazil as well as on the islands of Havana , Cuba and the Dominican Republic .
Construction of the Imago
While the young animals are still yellowish in color with a touch of olive, the adults become brownish to reddish brown with age (both the body and the wings). The face is yellowish to reddish in the males and brownish in the females. The base of the wings of the males is ocher colored, which gives the species its name. The males reach abdomen lengths between 19 and 24.5 millimeters, the females, however, only 18 to 23 millimeters. The length of the hind wing is 23.5 to 29 millimeters in the males and 24 to 28.5 millimeters in the females.
Similar species
Erythrodiplax ochracea are similar to Erythrodiplax connata , the two species can only be clearly distinguished based on the shape of the genitals .
credentials
- ↑ a b c A. E. Eaton and Philip P. Calvert: Insecta. Neuroptera. Ephemeridæ and Odonata. [London: published for the editors by RH Porter]: 1892-1908.
- ↑ Philip Powell Calvert : Burmeister's Types of Odonata . In: Transactions of the American Entomological Society . 25, No. 2, 1898, pp. 71ff.
Web link
- Erythrodiplax ochracea in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: von Ellenrieder, N., 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2014.