Libellula comanche

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Libellula comanche
Comanche Skimmer - Libellula comanche, Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Roswell, New Mexico - 7300107892.jpg

Libellula comanche

Systematics
Subordination : Dragonflies (Anisoptera)
Superfamily : Libelluloidea
Family : Libellulidae (Libellulidae)
Subfamily : Libellulinae
Genre : Libellula
Type : Libellula comanche
Scientific name
Libellula comanche
Calvert , 1907

Libellula comanche is a dragonfly - Art of the genus Libellula of the subfamily Libellulinae . Their distribution area extends over the USA and northern Mexico .

features

Construction of the Imago

The animal reaches a length of 45 to 57 millimeters, of which 30 to 36 millimeters are on the abdomen . The animal has a white face with a dark stripe over the front end of the mouthparts, the labrum . The thorax is brown in front and has a broad, light line in the middle. The wings are transparent, but less often they can also have a yellow sheen on the front edge. The pterostigm of the species is unusually bicolored. It is yellowish-white on the side facing the body and black on the side facing away. The hind wings are between 35 and 46 millimeters long. The legs are black. The abdomen is brownish with darker stripes, whereby with the aging process, as with many other species, the color changes and becomes more dark blue.

Individual evidence

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Web links

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