| Anax walsinghami | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Aeshnidae |
| Genus: | Anax |
| Species: | A. walsinghami
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| Binomial name | |
| Anax walsinghami McLachlan, 1883
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Anax walsinghami is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae (darners), in the suborder Anisoptera ("dragonflies"). [2] [3] The species is known generally as the giant darner or giant green darner. [4] The distribution range of Anax walsinghami includes Central America and North America. [3] At up to 120 mm (4.7 in) in wingspan and with a typical body length of 89–117 mm (3.5–4.6 in), it is North America's largest dragonfly, [2] [5] although exceeded by the closely related giant Hawaiian darner (A. strenuus). [6]
The IUCN conservation status of A. walsinghami is least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable. [1] [7]
References
- ^ a b "List of Endangered Species". IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ a b "Anax walsinghami Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ a b "Anax walsinghami Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Anax walsinghami Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ Roberson, D. (10 March 2007). "Giant Darner Anax walsinghami". Creagrus. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ Williams, F.X. (1936). "Biological Studies in Hawaiian Water-Loving Insects, PART I Coleoptera or Beetles, PART II Odonata or Dragonflies". Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. IX (2): 235–349.
- ^ "Odonata Central". Odonata Central, University of Alabama. University of Alabama. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
Further reading
- 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.
- Ross H. Arnett. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.