Epitheca bimaculata

Epitheca bimaculata
Male and female
Photographed in Lithuania
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Corduliidae
Genus:	Epitheca
Species:	E. bimaculata
Binomial name
Epitheca bimaculata (Charpentier, 1825)
Synonyms
Libellula bimaculataCharpentier, 1825 [2]

Epitheca bimaculata, the Eurasian baskettail ^[1] or two-spotted dragonfly, is a species of dragonfly. It was described by Toussaint de Charpentier in 1825 and initially placed in the genus Libellula . It is the type species of the genus Epitheca .

Distribution

Its habitat ranges from Western France to Japan and eastern Siberia. ^[1]

It has been found in Western Europe, but here it is "rare and seen very irregularly". ^[3] It has also been found in Serbia, ^[4] and Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. ^[5] Its occurrence in Hungary is "sporadic". ^[6] It also is found in Ukraine. ^[7]

Biology

It flies in May and June. ^[7]

Former subspecies

Two subspecies were recognized, but they were synonymized in 2004: ^[8]

• Epitheca bimaculata sibirica(Selys, 1887) ^[9]
• Epitheca bimaculata altaicaBelyshev, 1951

References

1. Boudot, J.-P. (2020). "Epitheca bimaculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T165482A140524274. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T165482A140524274.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. de Charpentier, Toussaint (1825), "Libellula bimaculata", Horae Entomologicae: Adjectis tabulis novem coloratis, Wratislavia: A. Gosohorsky, pp. 43–44
3. Martens, K. (1982). "New localities for Epitheca bimaculata (Charp.), with a review of its status in Western Europe (Anisoptera: Corduliidae)". Notulae Odonatologicae. 1 (10): 157–159.
4. Jović, Miloš; Andjus, Ljiljana; Santovac, Svetozar (2009). "New data on some rare and poorly known Odonata species in Serbia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. 2: 102–103. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
5. Buczyński, Paweł; Shapoval, Anatoly P.; Buczyńska, Edyta (2014). "Pantala flavescens at the coast of the Baltic Sea (Odonata: Libellulidae)" (PDF). Odonatologica. 43 (1/2): 5.
6. Jakab, T.; Müller, Z.; Dévai, Gy.; Tóthmérész, B. (2002). "Dragonfly assemblages of a shallow lake type reservoir (Tisza-tó, Hungary) and its surroundings" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 48 (3): 165.
7. Khrokalo, L. A.; Sheshurak, P. M. (2006). "Flight Seasonality of Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) in Northeastern Ukraine". Vestnik Zoologii. 40 (2): 148.
8. Kosterin, O. E. (2004). "Odonata of the Daurskiy State Nature Reserve area, Transbaikalia, Russia". Odonatologica. 33 (1): 56–57.
9. de Selys-Longchamps, [E.] (1887). "Odonates de l'Asie Mineure, et révision de ceux de autres parties de faune paléarctique (dite européenne)". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique. 31: 59.

Further reading

• de Charpentier, Toussaint (1840). Libellulinae europaeae descriptae ac depictae. Lipsia: Leopold Voss. pp. 10, 22, 57–58, 175.
• Steinmann, Henrik (1997). "Genus Epitheca Burmeister". World Catalogue of Odonata II. The Animal Kingdom. Vol. 111. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 255–256. doi:10.1515/9783110824445.250. ISBN   978-3-11-082444-5.