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Giant Hawaiian Darner

Anax strenuus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Hawaii.January 19, February 16, March 20, April 12, May 10, June 9, July 13, August 10, September 11, October 13, November 14, December 19.
United States166
Hawaii166

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

Remember the name next time.

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