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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Emeralds (Corduliidae)

Family Corduliidae - Emeralds

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Uhler's Sundragon - Helocordulia uhleri - male Stripe-winged Baskettail - Epitheca costalis Stripe-winged Baskettail??? - Neurocordulia obsoleta Racket-tailed Emerald - Dorocordulia libera - male immature, female American Emerald - Cordulia shurtleffii? - Cordulia shurtleffii Spiny Baskettail in New Brunswick - Epitheca spinigera - male Kennedys Emerald, closeup of male claspers, 1st individual - Somatochlora kennedyi - male Incurvate Emerald in flight - Somatochlora incurvata - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
Suborder Anisoptera (Dragonflies)
Family Corduliidae (Emeralds)
Numbers
fifty species in seven genera listed at The Odonata of North America
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 8 March, 2004 - 8:19pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod
Last updated 9 November, 2008 - 9:55am

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