Orthetrum angustiventre
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Orthetrum angustiventre is a species of dragonfly of the genus Orthetrum from the subfamily Libellulinae . It was first described in 1842 by Jules Pierre Rambur .
Construction of the Imago
The slender abdomen is about 55 millimeters long in the Orthetrum angustiventre males and about 47.5 millimeters long in the females and is dirty yellow. The hind wings measure around 40 millimeters in length and are around 10.5 millimeters wide on both the arculus and the nodus . The comparatively long, light yellow wing mark ( pterostigma ) reaches 5.5 millimeters. The membrane of the wings is white. In animals examined by Ferdinand Karsch, the fore wing has 17 antenodal veins and eleven to twelve postnodal veins. The hind wing, however, has 13 and 14 respectively.
credentials
- ↑ Ferdinand Karsch: Odonaten von Misahöhe (landscape Agome in the Togo hinterland) collected by Ernst Baumann, compiled from the notes left by E. Baumann. . (pdf) In: Entomological News . 22, 1898, pp. 342-347.
Web link
- Orthetrum angustiventre inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Posted by: Clausnitzer, V., Dijkstra, K.-DB & Suhling, F., 2009. Retrieved on February 22, 2014.