Brilliant emerald
| Brilliant emerald | |
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| teneral male | |
| teneral female both Moat Pond, Thursley Common, Surrey | |
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| Suborder: | Anisoptera
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| Species: | S. metallica
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| Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)
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The brilliant emerald, Somatochlora metallica, is a middle-sized species of dragonfly. It is the largest and greenest of the Somatochlora species; 50–55 millimetres (2.0–2.2 in) long.[2]
S. metallica is found across most of northern Eurasia where it is the commonest of its genus.[2] In Great Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland.[3]
The East Asian Somatochlora vera, scientifically described in 1914 by Aleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen from Ussuri, Siberia[4] (and later also reported in northern China[5]), is typically treated as part of S. metallica,[1][5] but has also been considered a synonym of the East Asian S. exuberata.[6]
References[]
- ^ a b c Dennis Paulson; Martin Schorr; Cyrille Deliry. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 15 Feb 2022.
- ^ a b Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2006). Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing. ISBN 0-9531399-4-8.
- ^ "The Brilliant Emerald". British Dragonfly Society.
- ^ Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata II: Anisoptera. De Gruyter. p. 273.
- ^ a b Zhang, Hao-Miao; Vogt, Timothy E.; Cai, Qing-hua (2014). "Somatochlora shennong sp. nov. from Hubei, China (Odonata: Corduliidae)". Zootaxa.
- ^ Malikova, Elena I.; Kosterin, Oleg E. (2019). "Check-list of Odonata of the Russian Federation". Odonatologica. 48 (1/2): 49–78. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2677689.
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