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Comet Darner

Anax longipes

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ohio.January 30, February 33, March 44, April 86, May 202, June 302, July 221, August 37, September 43, October 35, November 25, December 24.
United States4,275
Ohio648
Texas575
New Jersey488
Canada338
Ontario330
Maryland288
Virginia280
Michigan195
New York188

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

Sources

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

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