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Thornbush Dasher

Micrathyria hagenii

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 221, February 212, March 241, April 457, May 280, June 199, July 246, August 205, September 208, October 270, November 270, December 201.
United States2,558
Texas2,513
Mexico277
Nuevo Leon66
Sinaloa57
New Mexico30
Sonora29
Yucatan24
Jalisco17
Baja California Sur11

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
GenusSpeckled Dashers · Micrathyria

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