Thursday, December 20, 2018

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. 

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