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Tonto Dancer

Argia tonto

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Arizona.January 65, February 59, March 79, April 104, May 95, June 126, July 162, August 128, September 82, October 49, November 50, December 57.
United States824
Arizona745
Mexico35
New Mexico28
Nuevo Leon18
Sonora8
Ohio3
Coahuila de Zaragoza2
San Luis Potosi2
Chihuahua1

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
FamilyNarrow-winged Damselflies · Coenagrionidae
GenusDancers · Argia

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