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Blue Featherleg

Platycnemis pennipes

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 5,920, February 4,373, March 6,851, April 10,778, May 15,541, June 16,946, July 18,133, August 15,595, September 11,449, October 8,546, November 4,670, December 3,650.
United States122,453
Alaska122,453
Germany6,134
Russia5,534
France5,023
Italy3,244
Austria2,667
Nord-Ovest2,004
Bayern1,668
Poland1,381

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
FamilyWhite-legged damselflies · Platycnemididae
GenusPlatycnemis

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