Male Blue Dasher Dragon Fly

These are amazingly efficient flying insects. This particular one is a Male Blue Dasher or Pachydiplax longipennis. Here is the whole long list of classifications from the Kingdom down to the Species.

• Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
• Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
• Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
• Class Insecta (Insects)
• Order Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
• Suborder Anisoptera (Dragonflies)
• Family Libellulidae (Skimmers)
• Genus Pachydiplax
• Species longipennis (Blue Dasher)

This is a particularly fine specimen.