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Slender Clubskimmer

Brechmorhoga praecox

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 Mexico.January 5, February 1, March 6, April 4, May 3, June 3, July 4, August 13, September 3, October 3, November 4, December 2.
Mexico51
Costa Rica20
Panama13
United States11
Arizona11
Sonora10
Sinaloa8
Nuevo Leon7
Jalisco6
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave6

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
GenusClubskimmers · Brechmorhoga

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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