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Yellow Emperor Dragonfly

Anax papuensis

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 Australia.January 450, February 458, March 464, April 273, May 146, June 70, July 55, August 208, September 618, October 518, November 329, December 453.
Australia4,042
Victoria1,303
Queensland951
New South Wales821
South Australia432
Western Australia394
Australian Capital Territory73
New Zealand62
Northern Territory47
Auckland Region19

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
FamilyDarners · Aeshnidae
GenusEmperors and Green Darners · Anax

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Yellow Emperor Dragonfly with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.