Eastern forktail
Eastern forktail | |
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Adult male | |
Adult female | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Ischnura |
Species: | I. verticalis |
Binomial name | |
Ischnura verticalis (Say, 1839) [1] | |
Eastern forktail (Ischnura verticalis) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.
The males are yellow-green with blue on the top of the eighth and ninth abdominal segments. The females may be orange, or less commonly yellow-green like the male.[2][3]
Flies from late June to early October.[3]
Gallery
- Immature female
- Immature Female
- Immature Female
- Male
References
- ↑ "Ischnura verticalis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ↑ Abbott, John C. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton University Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-691-11364-5.
- 1 2 Dubois, Bob. Damselflies of the North Woods. Duluth, MN:Kollath+Stensaas, 2005, p.110-111.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ischnura verticalis. |
External identifiers for Eastern forktail | |
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Encyclopedia of Life | 234747 |
- Species Ischnura verticalis on BugGuide.Net
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