Boyeria | |
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Fawn darner (Boyeria vinosa) in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
Family: | Aeshnidae |
Genus: | Boyeria McLachlan, 1896 |
Boyeria is a genus of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae, commonly called spotted darners. They occur in temperate North America and Eurasia. [1]
The name Boyeria commemorates the French entomologist Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe [2]
The genus contains the following seven described species: [3]