Biology:Brilliant emerald
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Short description: Species of dragonfly
| Brilliant emerald | |
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| teneral male | |
| teneral female both Moat Pond, Thursley Common, Surrey | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Corduliidae |
| Genus: | Somatochlora |
| Species: | S. metallica
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| Binomial name | |
| Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825)
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| Synonyms | |
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The brilliant emerald, Somatochlora metallica, is a middle-sized species of dragonfly. It is the largest and greenest of the Somatochlora species; 50–55 millimetres (2.0–2.2 in) long.[2]
S. metallica is found across most of northern Eurasia where it is the commonest of its genus.[2] In Great Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland.[3]
The East Asian Somatochlora vera, scientifically described in 1914 by Aleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen from Ussuri, Siberia[4] (and later also reported in northern China[5]), is typically treated as part of S. metallica,[1][5] but has also been considered a synonym of the East Asian S. exuberata.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2006). Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing. ISBN 0-9531399-4-8.
- ↑ "The Brilliant Emerald". British Dragonfly Society. http://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/brilliant-emerald.
- ↑ Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata II: Anisoptera. De Gruyter. p. 273.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zhang, Hao-Miao; Vogt, Timothy E.; Cai, Qing-hua (2014). "Somatochlora shennong sp. nov. from Hubei, China (Odonata: Corduliidae)". Zootaxa.
- ↑ Malikova, Elena I.; Kosterin, Oleg E. (2019). "Check-list of Odonata of the Russian Federation". Odonatologica 48 (1/2): 49–78. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2677689.
Wikidata ☰ Q1532591 entry
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