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Small Red Damselfly

Ceriagrion tenellum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,844, February 1,362, March 2,134, April 3,357, May 4,840, June 5,277, July 5,647, August 4,856, September 3,566, October 2,661, November 1,454, December 1,137.
United States38,134
Alaska38,134
France858
Spain394
Italy323
Germany259
Portugal204
United Kingdom185
Niedersachsen182
Nord-Ovest167

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
FamilyNarrow-winged Damselflies · Coenagrionidae
GenusCitrils, Marsh-darts and allies · Ceriagrion

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Small Red Damselfly with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.