Brilliant emerald

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Brilliant emerald
Brilliant emerald (Somatochlora metallica) teneral male.jpg
teneral male
Brilliant emerald (Somatochlora metallica) teneral female 3.jpg
teneral female
both Moat Pond, Thursley Common, Surrey
Status iucn3.1 VU.svg
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [2] Europe
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Corduliidae
Genus: Somatochlora
Species:
S. metallica
Binomial name
Somatochlora metallica
(Vander Linden, 1825)
Synonyms
  • Somatochlora coreanaDoi, 1938 [3]
  • Somatochlora vera Bartenev, 1914 [3]

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. [4]

S. metallica is found across most of northern Eurasia where it is the commonest of its genus. [4] In Great Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland. [5]

The East Asian Somatochlora vera, scientifically described in 1914 by Aleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen from Ussuri, Siberia [6] (and later also reported in northern China [7] ), is typically treated as part of S. metallica, [3] [7] but has also been considered a synonym of the East Asian S. exuberata . [8]

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References

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