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Giant Darner

Anax walsinghami

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 22, February 19, March 20, April 25, May 24, June 40, July 24, August 16, September 20, October 20, November 26, December 20.
United States584
California246
Arizona139
Texas129
New Mexico41
Mexico21
Nevada15
Utah14
Baja California Sur13
Nuevo Leon2

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

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