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American Emerald

Cordulia shurtleffii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 133, February 137, March 217, April 424, May 842, June 537, July 287, August 260, September 273, October 224, November 140, December 125.
Canada8,866
United States6,339
Ontario2,081
New York1,103
Quebec622
Michigan608
British Columbia584
Nunavut555
Minnesota400
Maine332

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
FamilyEmerald Dragonflies · Corduliidae
GenusCommon Emerald Dragonflies · Cordulia

Sources

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Practise American Emerald 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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