Somatochlora viridiaenea
Species of dragonfly
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Somatochlora viridiaenea is a species of dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. The species was described in 1858 by American entomologist Philip Reese Uhler based on a female specimen from Hokkaido, Japan.[3] It has also been recorded on Honshu, in eastern Russia, and in Zhejiang, China.[4][5] The Zhejiang specimen was described as a separate species [5], but a 2021 paper found that it should be treated as part of S. viridiaenea.[6] Its closest relative is another East Asian species, S. clavata.[7]
female
male in flight
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| Somatochlora viridiaenea | |
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| male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Superfamily: | Libelluloidea |
| Family: | Corduliidae |
| Genus: | Somatochlora |
| Species: | S. viridiaenea |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatochlora viridiaenea (Uhler, 1858) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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