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Downy Emerald

Cordulia aenea

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 4,523, February 3,340, March 5,234, April 8,234, May 11,872, June 12,946, July 13,853, August 11,913, September 8,746, October 6,529, November 3,567, December 2,788.
United States93,546
Alaska93,545
Germany858
Russia791
Denmark639
France500
Finland303
Netherlands241
Syddanmark235
Austria214

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
FamilyEmerald Dragonflies · Corduliidae
GenusCommon Emerald Dragonflies · Cordulia

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