Argiocnemis rubescens

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Argiocnemis rubescens
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Male, Queensland
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Female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Argiocnemis
Species:
A. rubescens
Binomial name
Argiocnemis rubescens
Selys, 1877 [1]
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Argiocnemis rubescens is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae, [2] commonly known as the red-tipped shadefly. [3] It is a widespread species extending from India to southern China, south-east Asia, New Guinea and Australia. [3]

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It prefers fresh still waters such as pools, marshes and swamps. The adult is a small to medium-sized damselfly with a length of 35 to 40mm, and the hindwing less than 22mm. When immature it is a pale reddish brown. The mature male is dark with pale green stripes on the thorax, and red on segments 8 and 9. In Australia, the distribution is in suitable habitat from Shark Bay in the west, across the north of the continent, to about Point Hicks in the south-east. [3] The taxon has been assessed in the IUCN Red List as least concern.

Etymology

The species name rubescens is a Latin word meaning reddish. Edmond de Sélys Longchamps named this species of damselfly after the colour of the upper surface of its abdomen. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Selys-Longchamps, E. (1877). "Synopsis des Agrionines, 5me légion: Agrion (suite et fin). Les genres Telebasis, Argiocnemis et Hemiphlebia". Bulletin de la Classe des Science, Académie Royale de Belgique. 2 (in French). 43: 97–159 [136] via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. "Species Argiocnemis rubescens Selys, 1877". Australian Faunal Directory . Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 Theischinger, G; Hawking, J (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood Vic.: CSIRO Publishing. p. 98. ISBN   978 0 64309 073 6.
  4. Endersby, Ian; Fliedner, Heinrich (2015). The Naming of Australia's Dragonflies. Eltham, Victoria, Australia: Busybird Publishing. ISBN   9781925260625.