Ophiogomphus australis

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Ophiogomphus australis

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Gomphidae
Genus: Ophiogomphus
Species:
O. australis
Binomial name
Ophiogomphus australis
Carle, 1992

Ophiogomphus australis, the southern snaketail,[2] is a dragonfly in the genus Ophiogomphus ("snaketails"), in the family Gomphidae ("clubtails").[3][4] Ophiogomphus australis is found in North America.[4]

The IUCN conservation status of Ophiogomphus australis is "NT", Near Threatened. The population is decreasing.[5]

References

Further reading

  • American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
  • Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). Odonata. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551-580.
  • Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle (1999). A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution. Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56, 88.

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