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Graphic Flutterer

Rhyothemis graphiptera

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 563, February 322, March 210, April 171, May 75, June 69, July 54, August 78, September 140, October 176, November 373, December 611.
Australia2,842
Queensland1,743
New South Wales580
Northern Territory469
Western Australia50
Indonesia2
East Nusa Tenggara1
Maluku1

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
GenusFlutterers · Rhyothemis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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