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Common Spreadwing

Lestes sponsa

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 7,014, February 5,180, March 8,116, April 12,769, May 18,411, June 20,076, July 21,482, August 18,475, September 13,564, October 10,124, November 5,532, December 4,324.
United States145,066
Alaska145,066
Russia3,132
United Kingdom1,038
Germany808
England713
Denmark497
Moscow Oblast450
Finland427
France349

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
FamilySpreadwings and allies · Lestidae
GenusPond Spreadwings · Lestes

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