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Four-tipped Darter

Sympetrum eroticum

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Japan.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 6, July 45, August 58, September 139, October 100, November 28, December 2.
Japan378
South Korea310
China262
Tokyo159
Beijing Municipality99
Russia93
South Gyeongsang84
Primorsky Krai57
Kanagawa55
South Chungcheong42

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
GenusMeadowhawks · Sympetrum

Sources

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Practise Four-tipped Darter 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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