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Keeled Skimmer

Orthetrum coerulescens

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,451, February 1,072, March 1,680, April 2,642, May 3,810, June 4,154, July 4,446, August 3,823, September 2,807, October 2,095, November 1,145, December 895.
United States30,020
Alaska30,020
Italy2,429
Spain1,780
France1,642
Nord-Ovest1,510
Portugal779
Germany724
Galicia688
United Kingdom605

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
GenusOrthetrum

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