Leucorrhinia

Whitefaces
Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Ruby whiteface) male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Subfamily:	Leucorrhiniinae
Genus:	Leucorrhinia Brittinger, 1850 [1]

Leucorrhinia is a genus of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. They are commonly called whitefaces because of their distinctive pale frons.

Species

Listed alphabetically. ^{[2] [3]}

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Leucorrhinia albifrons (Burmeister, 1839)	dark whiteface [4]	Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
		Leucorrhinia borealis Hagen, 1890	boreal whiteface [5]	North America
		Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840)	lilypad whiteface [4]	Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
		Leucorrhinia circassica Bartenev, 1929		North-Western Caucasus
		Leucorrhinia dubia (Van der Linden, 1825)	white-faced darter, [6] small whiteface [4]	northern Europe eastwards to Siberia
		Leucorrhinia frigida Hagen, 1890	frosted whiteface [5]	United States and southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick.
		Leucorrhinia glacialis Hagen, 1890	crimson-ringed whiteface [5]	North America
		Leucorrhinia hudsonica (Selys, 1850)	Hudsonian whiteface [5]	northern West Virginia
		Leucorrhinia intacta (Hagen, 1861)	dot-tailed whiteface [5]	United States (Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming), Canada: (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia • Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)
		Leucorrhinia intermedia Bartenev, 1912		Japan
		Leucorrhinia orientalis Selys, 1887		Russia
		Leucorrhinia patricia Walker, 1940	Canada whiteface [5]	North America
		Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825)	large white-faced darter, yellow-spotted whiteface [4]	western Siberia to parts of France.
		Leucorrhinia proxima Calvert, 1890	red-waisted whiteface, [7] belted whiteface [5]
		Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758)	ruby whiteface [4]	Northern Belgium and it is found through Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Fennoscandia, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.

References

1. Leucorrhinia, funet.fi
2. Leucorrhinia Archived 2012-06-14 at the Wayback Machine , Zipcodezoo
3. Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound . Retrieved 11 August 2010.
4. "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
5. "North American Odonata". University of Puget Sound. 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
6. "Checklist of UK Species". British Dragonfly Society. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
7. Dunkle, S. W. (2000). Dragonflies through Binoculars. OUP.

External links

• Media related to Leucorrhinia at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Leucorrhinia at Wikispecies
• Whitefaces, PBase
• Whitefaces, BugGuide