Biology:Octogomphus
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Short description: Genus of dragonflies
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Gomphidae |
| Genus: | Octogomphus Selys, 1873 |
| Species: | O. specularis
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| Octogomphus specularis (Hagen in Selys, 1859)
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Octogomphus, the grappletail, is a genus of club-tailed dragonflies found in North America, containing the single species Octogomphus specularis.[1]
The Grappletail, not seen in British Columbia for 40 years, was re-discovered by citizen scientists in July 2020, during a hike in Davis Lake Provincial Park, near Mission, B.C. [2]
References
- ↑ "Octogomphus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101737.
- ↑ "New discoveries made in mammoth effort to catalogue B.C.’s plants and animals" (in en-US). https://globalnews.ca/news/7364618/bc-big-nature-challenge-one-million/.
External links
- Octogomphus, BugGuide
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