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Black-tailed Skimmer

Orthetrum cancellatum

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 14,816, February 10,943, March 17,145, April 26,972, May 38,890, June 42,407, July 45,378, August 39,025, September 28,651, October 21,386, November 11,686, December 9,134.
United States306,433
Alaska306,433
Germany5,582
France4,402
Russia3,967
Italy3,393
United Kingdom2,841
England2,741
Nord-Ovest2,261
Spain1,478

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
GenusOrthetrum

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