Rhodopygia
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Rhodopygia is a genus of dragonflies made up of five species. The genus belongs to the subfamily Sympetrinae and was described in 1889 by William Forsell Kirby . Adragonfly from Guiana, previously known as Libellula cardinalis ,servedas the generotype . The distribution area extends mainly over northern South and Central America .
features
Rhodopygia species reach lengths between 44 and 50 millimeters and are mainly red in color. The relatively small head is usually green or brown. The wings are usually transparent and usually have a small reddish-brown spot on the base of the hind wing. The wing markings ( pterostigma ) are of the same size in the fore and hind wings. In the front wing, the last of the 15 to 20 Antenodal veins only goes up to halfway. There are also between 11 and 15 PostNoda veins. The only genus within the Sympetrinae is the Arculus in Rhodopygia, usually between the second and third antenode veins. The wing triangle usually does not have a dividing vein in the hind wing - in contrast, it is often divided in the forewing. A number of prickles sit on the pronounced legs.
Habitat
The adults of the Rhodopygia occur particularly over fields and on forest paths.
Systematics
The following species belong to the genus Rhodopygia
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Garrison, von Ellenrieder , Louton: Dragonfly Genera of the New World . [S. 272], The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, ISBN 0801884462
- ^ A b Henrik Steinmann: World Catalog of Odonata (Volume II Anisoptera) [p. 465], de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-110-14934-6
- ^ J. Belle: Synopsis of the Neotropical genus Rhodopygia Kirby , 1889 (Odonata: Libellulidae), Zool. Med. Leiden 72 (1), (1998) 1-13, ISSN 0024-0672 .