Libellula auripennis
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The Libellula auripennis is a dragonfly - Art of the genus Libellula of the subfamily Libellulinae . Their distribution area extends over the USA and Central America .
features
Construction of the Imago
The animal reaches a length of 45 to 58 millimeters, of which 32 to 40 millimeters are on the abdomen . The species is therefore relatively large. Their coloring is dominated by the color red. The face of young animals is brown and later turns red in the male. The thorax is also brown and has two unclean light stripes on the side. With age, the front of the thorax in males turns a rusty red. The hind wings are between 35 and 45 millimeters long and the pterostigma is yellow, but becomes bright red in adult males. The costa , a longitudinal vein in the wing vein , is white. The rest of the wing veins are reddish-orange. The posterior tibiae are reddish-brown. The abdomen is yellow with a black stripe following the spine , but also in males it becomes bright red with age.
Construction of the larva
The larvae have eyes located in the center of the face and have a long abdomen that tapers towards the end. The edge of the unpaired front part of the labium , the so-called prementum, is smooth.
Scientific descriptions
The species was first described under its current name by Burmeister in 1839 using a male from Savannah . Three years later, Rambur provided another description under the name Libellula costalis . In 1922 Williamson published the description of a male from Florida under Libellula jesseana .
credentials
- ^ A b Henrik Steinmann - World Catalog of Odonata (Volume II Anisoptera) [p. 390f], de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-11-014934-6
- ↑ http://odonatacentral.bfl.utexas.edu/fieldguide/species.asp?taxaid=218 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 19, 2006)
- ↑ Jerrell James Daigle: Florida Dragonflies (Anisoptera): A Species Key to the Aquatic Larval Stages . In: Technical Series . 12, No. 1, November 1992, p. 23.
