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Red-tailed Skimmer

Orthemis schmidti

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.January 19, February 16, March 18, April 8, May 4, June 1, July 2, August 2, September 0, October 2, November 16, December 2.
Costa Rica90
Panama42
Provincia Puntarenas33
Peru31
Provincia Limón28
Brazil24
Mexico23
Colombia19
Provincia Alajuela18
Loreto18

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderDragonflies and Damselflies · Odonata
FamilySkimmers · Libellulidae
GenusTropical King Skimmers · Orthemis

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