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Northern Banded Groundling

Brachythemis impartita

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 18, May 40, June 114, July 78, August 144, September 112, October 10, November 0, December 0.
Spain516
Portugal470
Andalucía247
Israel241
PORTALEGRE117
Comunitat Valenciana116
Italy113
Turkey100
Extremadura96
Isole86

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
GenusGroundlings · Brachythemis

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