Microstigma rotundatum | |
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Microstigma rotundatum. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Microstigma |
Species: | M. rotundatum
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Binomial name | |
Microstigma rotundatum
Selys, 1860
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Microstigma rotundatum, the helicopter damselfly, is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Coenagrionidae. [2]
These damselflies have a long, thin body and large wings with a dense venation. The apex of the forewings has large yellow flecks and the pseudostigma shows many cells. [3] [4]
These damselflies mainly prey on web-building spiders. Larvae develop in water-filled crevices of fallen trees and in phytotelmata, the bodies of water held by some plants ( bromeliads). [5]
This species is present in South America (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Amazonas). [3] It lives in tropical primary lowland forests.
Microstigma rotundatum | |
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Microstigma rotundatum. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Microstigma |
Species: | M. rotundatum
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Binomial name | |
Microstigma rotundatum
Selys, 1860
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Microstigma rotundatum, the helicopter damselfly, is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Coenagrionidae. [2]
These damselflies have a long, thin body and large wings with a dense venation. The apex of the forewings has large yellow flecks and the pseudostigma shows many cells. [3] [4]
These damselflies mainly prey on web-building spiders. Larvae develop in water-filled crevices of fallen trees and in phytotelmata, the bodies of water held by some plants ( bromeliads). [5]
This species is present in South America (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Amazonas). [3] It lives in tropical primary lowland forests.