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Small Red-eyed Damselfly

Erythromma viridulum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 2,359, February 1,742, March 2,730, April 4,294, May 6,192, June 6,752, July 7,225, August 6,213, September 4,562, October 3,405, November 1,861, December 1,454.
United States48,789
Alaska48,789
Germany1,103
Russia813
France586
United Kingdom536
England531
Italy330
Ukraine314
Spain216

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
FamilyNarrow-winged Damselflies · Coenagrionidae
GenusErythromma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Small Red-eyed Damselfly with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.