Dragonfly, the Glossary
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.[1]
Table of Contents
221 relations: Adder, Aeshna subarctica, Aeshna viridis, Aeshnidae, Aeshnoidea, Afrotropical realm, Alaska, Albert Orr, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, American kestrel, Amulet, Amur falcon, Anax (dragonfly), Anax ephippiger, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greek, Angle of attack, Animal coloration, Antenna (biology), Antipodophlebia asthenes, Arctic Circle, Art Nouveau, Arthropod eye, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, Australasia, Australian emperor, Austropetaliidae, Austrophlebia costalis, Banded demoiselle, Basiaeschna, BBC Wildlife, Biodiversity, Biological life cycle, Birdlime, Black saddlebags, Blend word, Blue dasher, Blue-eyed darner, Body plan, Brachythemis, British Dragonfly Society, Brown hawker, Butterfly, Cambridge University Press, Camouflage, Carboniferous, Carl Linnaeus, Cercus, Chain mail, China, ... Expand index (171 more) »
- Dragonflies
- Extant Pennsylvanian first appearances
- Odonata
Adder
Vipera berus, also known as the common European adderMallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G (2003).
Aeshna subarctica
Aeshna subarctica, the subarctic darner, is a species of darner in the family Aeshnidae.
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Aeshna viridis
Aeshna viridis, the green hawker, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae.
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Aeshnidae
The Aeshnidae, also called aeshnids, hawkers, or darners, is a family of dragonflies, found nearly worldwide.
Aeshnoidea
Aeshnoidea is a superfamily of dragonflies that contains five families, one of which is extinct. Dragonfly and Aeshnoidea are dragonflies.
Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms.
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Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Albert Orr
Albert George Orr is an Australian entomologist.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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American kestrel
The American kestrel (Falco sparverius), is the smallest and most common falcon in North America.
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Amulet
An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor.
Amur falcon
The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family.
Anax (dragonfly)
Anax (from Ancient Greek ἄναξ anax, "lord, master, king") is a genus of dragonflies in the family Aeshnidae.
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Anax ephippiger
Anax ephippiger, the vagrant emperor, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Angle of attack
In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or \alpha) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.
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Animal coloration
Animal colouration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces.
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Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
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Antipodophlebia asthenes
Antipodophlebia asthenes is a species of dragonfly of the family Telephlebiidae, commonly known as the terrestrial evening darner.
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Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
Arthropod eye
Apposition eyes are the most common form of eye, and are presumably the ancestral form of compound eye.
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August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (March 30, 1705 in Augustenburg near Arnstadt – March 27, 1759 in Nuremberg) was a German miniature painter, naturalist and entomologist.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Australian emperor
The Australian emperor dragonfly, also known as the yellow emperor dragonfly, scientific name Anax papuensis, is a species of dragonfly in the Aeshnidae family.
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Austropetaliidae
Austropetaliidae is a small family of dragonflies occurring in Chile, Argentina and Australia.
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Austrophlebia costalis
Austrophlebia costalis, the southern giant darner, is a species of dragonfly in the family Telephlebiidae endemic to eastern Australia.
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Banded demoiselle
The banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae.
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Basiaeschna
Basiaeschna janata, the springtime darner, is a species of dragonfly in the monotypic genus Basiaeshna in the family Aeshnidae.
BBC Wildlife
BBC Wildlife is a British glossy, all-colour magazine about wildlife, operated and published by Immediate Media Company.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biological life cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the process repeating in a cyclic fashion.
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Birdlime
Birdlime or bird lime is an adhesive substance used in trapping birds.
Black saddlebags
The black saddlebags (Tramea lacerata) is a species of skimmer dragonfly found throughout North America.
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Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Blue dasher
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is an insect of the skimmer family.
Blue-eyed darner
The blue-eyed darner (Rhionaeschna multicolor, syn. Aeshna multicolor) is a common dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; native to the western United States, it is commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.
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Body plan
A body plan, Bauplan, or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals.
Brachythemis
Brachythemis is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
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British Dragonfly Society
The British Dragonfly Society is a conservation organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Brown hawker
The brown hawker (Aeshna grandis) is a large dragonfly about long.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. Dragonfly and Butterfly are insects in culture.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Cercus
Cerci (cercus) are paired appendages usually on the rear-most segments of many arthropods, including insects and symphylans.
Chain mail
Chain mail (also known as chain-mail, mail or maille) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chironomidae
The Chironomidae (informally known as chironomids, nonbiting midges, or lake flies) comprise a family of nematoceran flies with a global distribution.
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Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
Chlorogomphidae
The Chlorogomphidae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera, native to Asia.
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Cisuralian
The Cisuralian is the first series/epoch of the Permian.
Common whitetail
The common whitetail or long-tailed skimmer (Plathemis lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America, with a striking and unusual appearance.
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Compound eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.
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Cordulegaster bidentata
Cordulegaster bidentata, also known as sombre goldenring or two-toothed goldenring, is a species of dragonfly in the family Cordulegastridae.
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Cordulegastridae
The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera.
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Cordulegastroidea
Cordulegastroidea is a superfamily of dragonflies that contains three families. Dragonfly and Cordulegastroidea are dragonflies.
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Corduliidae
Corduliidae, also knowns as the emeralds, emerald dragonflies, or green-eyed skimmers, is a family of dragonflies.
Crocothemis
Crocothemis is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family, subfamily Sympetrinae (darters).
Cyborg
A cyborg (also known as cybernetic organism, cyber-organism, cyber-organic being, cybernetically enhanced organism, cybernetically augmented organism, technorganic being, techno-organic being, or techno-organism)—a portmanteau of '''''cyb'''ernetic'' and '''''org'''anism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.
Damselfly
Damselflies are flying insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. Dragonfly and Damselfly are insects used as insect pest control agents.
Devil
A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.
Douglas (motorcycles)
Douglas was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1907 to 1957 based in Kingswood, Bristol, owned by the Douglas family, and especially known for its horizontally opposed twin cylinder engined bikes and as manufacturers of speedway machines.
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Douglas Dragonfly
The Douglas Dragonfly is a motorcycle designed and built by Douglas motorcycles in Bristol.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.
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Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
Ectotherm
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός "outside" and θερμός "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps
Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps (25 May 1813 – 11 December 1900) was a Belgian Liberal Party politician and scientist.
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Emperor Jimmu
was the legendary first emperor of Japan according to the and.
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Endoplasmic reticulum
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a part of a transportation system of the eukaryotic cell, and has many other important functions such as protein folding.
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Epiophlebia
The genus Epiophlebia is the sole member of the family Epiophlebiidae, which is itself the sole living representative of the Epiproctan infraorder Epiophlebioptera, and it contains only three species. Dragonfly and Epiophlebia are dragonflies.
Eutrophication
Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
Exuviae
In biology, exuviae are the remains of an exoskeleton and related structures that are left after ecdysozoans (including insects, crustaceans and arachnids) have molted.
Faience
Faience or faïence is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Flagellum
A flagellum (flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility.
Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (–), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.
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Four-spotted chaser
Libellula quadrimaculata, known in Europe as the four-spotted chaser and in North America as the four-spotted skimmer, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae found widely throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings.
Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.
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Geobios
Geobios is an academic journal published bimonthly by the publishing house Elsevier.
Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide.
Gomphidae
The Gomphidae are a family of dragonflies commonly referred to as clubtails or club-tailed dragonflies.
Green darner
The green darner or common green darner (Anax junius), after its resemblance to a darning needle, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae.
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Gregarinasina
The gregarines are a group of Apicomplexan alveolates, classified as the Gregarinasina or Gregarinia.
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H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was an English writer, known for his gritty realistic short stories (he wrote more than 25 collections) and novels set in the early to mid 20th century of England mainly.
Haiku
is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry.
Handstand
A handstand is the act of supporting the body in a stable, inverted vertical position by balancing on the hands.
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hemimetabolism or hemimetaboly, also called partial metamorphosis and paurometabolism,McGavin, George C. Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction.
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Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
Hine's emerald
The Hine's emerald (Somatochlora hineana) is an endangered dragonfly species found in the United States and Canada.
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Hobby (bird)
A hobby is a fairly small, very swift falcon with long, narrow wings.
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Hopi
The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.
Hori Bakusui
Hori Bakusui 堀麦水 (1718-1783) was a major Japanese poet of the Matsuo Bashō revival, writing traditional style haiku poems.
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Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Hydrachnidia
Hydrachnidia, also known as "water mites", Hydrachnidiae, Hydracarina or Hydrachnellae, are among the most abundant and diverse groups of benthic arthropods, composed of 6,000 described species from 57 families.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Insect migration
Insect migration is the seasonal movement of insects, particularly those by species of dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths.
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Insect wing
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly.
Instar
An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Iridescence
Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japanese sword mountings
Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu) that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored.
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Japonisme
Japonisme is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858.
Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.
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Labrum (arthropod mouthpart)
The labrum is a flap-like structure that lies immediately in front of the mouth in almost all extant Euarthropoda.
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Lafcadio Hearn
, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn), was a Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West.
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Lamina (anatomy)
Lamina is a general anatomical term meaning "plate" or "layer".
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Libellulidae
The chasers, darters, skimmers and perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest dragonfly family in the world.
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Libelluloidea
Libelluloidea is a superfamily of dragonflies. Dragonfly and Libelluloidea are dragonflies.
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Lift (force)
When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object.
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Looming
Looming is a term found in the study of perception, as it relates directly to psychology.
Macromiidae
The insect family Macromiidae contains the dragonfly species known as cruisers or skimmers.
Matsuo Bashō
; born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作), later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房) was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period.
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Meganeuropsis
Meganeuropsis is an extinct genus of griffinfly, order Meganisoptera, known from the Early Permian Wellington Formation of North America, and represents the largest known insect of all time.
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Meganisoptera
Meganisoptera is an extinct order of large dragonfly-like insects, informally known as griffenflies or (incorrectly) as giant dragonflies.
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Merlin (bird)
The merlin (Falco columbarius) is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere, with numerous subspecies throughout North America and Eurasia.
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Mesothorax
The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs.
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
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The metathorax is the posterior of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the third pair of legs.
Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt following a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period.
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Midge
A midge is any small fly, including species in several families of non-mosquito nematoceran Diptera.
Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
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Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert (Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States.
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Moses Harris
Moses Harris (15 April 1730 – 1787) was an English entomologist and engraver.
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Mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. Dragonfly and Mosquito are insects in culture.
Moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.
Motion camouflage
Motion camouflage is camouflage which provides a degree of concealment for a moving object, given that motion makes objects easy to detect however well their coloration matches their background or breaks up their outlines.
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Names of Japan
The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages.
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Navajo
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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Neopetalia punctata
Neopetalia punctata is a dragonfly, the only member of the family Neopetaliidae.
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Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.
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Neuron
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system.
Nighthawk
The nighthawk is a nocturnal bird of the subfamily Chordeilinae, within the nightjar family, Caprimulgidae, native to the western hemisphere.
Northern emerald
The northern emerald (Somatochlora arctica) is a middle-sized species of dragonfly first described by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt in 1840.
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Nymph (biology)
In biology, a nymph (from Ancient Greek νύμφα nūmphē meaning "bride") is the juvenile form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage.
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Obelisk posture
The obelisk posture is a handstand-like position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to prevent overheating on sunny days. Dragonfly and obelisk posture are Odonata.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Odonata
Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. Dragonfly and Odonata are insects used as insect pest control agents.
Odonatoptera
The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera. Dragonfly and Odonatoptera are extant Pennsylvanian first appearances.
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Old World flycatcher
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) and northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), found also in North America.
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Ommatidium
The compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and millipedes are composed of units called ommatidia (ommatidium).
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Ovipositor
The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Palaeoptera
The name Palaeoptera (from Greek ('old') + ('wing')) has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged insects (most of them extinct) that lacked the ability to fold the wings back over the abdomen as characterizes the Neoptera.
Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.
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Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
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Pantala flavescens
Pantala flavescens, the globe skimmer, globe wanderer or wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.
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Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Petalura gigantea
Petalura gigantea, the giant dragonfly or south-eastern petaltail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Petaluridae from southeastern Australia.
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Petaluridae
The petaltails of the family Petaluridae are among the most ancient of the extant true dragonflies (infraorder Anisoptera), having fossil members from as early as the Jurassic, over 150 million years ago.
PH
In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").
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Phase (waves)
In physics and mathematics, the phase (symbol φ or ϕ) of a wave or other periodic function F of some real variable t (such as time) is an angle-like quantity representing the fraction of the cycle covered up to t. It is expressed in such a scale that it varies by one full turn as the variable t goes through each period (and F(t) goes through each complete cycle).
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Phragmites
Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Prothorax
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs.
Pterygota
The Pterygota (winged) are a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and the orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution). Dragonfly and Pterygota are extant Pennsylvanian first appearances.
Puebloans
The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices.
Pupa
A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.
Rectum
The rectum (rectums or recta) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals, and the gut in others.
Recursant
In heraldry, an animal recursant, tergiant, or (rarely) tergant is depicted as having its back shown to the viewer, e.g., "An eagle volant recursant descendant in pale" is an eagle flying ("volant"—as opposed to "displayed", "rousant", "combatant", or "addorsed") with its back towards the viewer ("recursant"—as opposed to "affronté ") going downward ("descendant"—as opposed to "ascendant", rising) "in pale"—along the vertical axis, as opposed to "in bend" or "in chief" or "to dexter", etc.).
Scarce chaser
The scarce chaser (Libellula fulva) is a species of dragonfly.
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Sex ratio
A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.
Sexual conflict
Sexual conflict or sexual antagonism occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, particularly over the mode and frequency of mating, potentially leading to an evolutionary arms race between males and females.
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Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Shibuichi
is a historically Japanese copper alloy, a member of the irogane class, which is patinated into a range of subtle greys and muted shades of blue, green, and brown, through the use of niiro processes, involving the rokushō compound.
Sikyátki
Sikyátki is an archeological site and former Hopi village spanning on the eastern side of First Mesa, in what is now Navajo County in the U.S. state of Arizona.
Simple eye in invertebrates
A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
Solar panel
A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells.
Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Sperm competition
Sperm competition is the competitive process between spermatozoa of two or more different males to fertilize the same egg during sexual reproduction.
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Stratiotes aloides
Stratiotes aloides, commonly known as water soldiers or water pineapple, is a submerged aquatic plant native to Europe and northwestern Asia.
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Structural coloration
Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination with pigments.
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Substrate (biology)
In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.
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Swallow
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica.
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Swift (bird)
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.
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Sympetrum
Sympetrum is a genus of small to medium-sized skimmer dragonflies, known as darters in the UK and as meadowhawks in North America.
Sympetrum danae
Sympetrum danae, the black darter or black meadowhawk, is a dragonfly found in northern Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Synthemistidae
The Synthemistidae are the family of dragonflies commonly known as tigertails, or sometimes called southern emeralds.
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Tadpole
A tadpole is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian.
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.
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Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. (colloquially known as Tiffany's) is an American luxury jewelry and specialty design house headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic.
Trematoda
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes or trematodes.
Trematode life cycle stages
Trematodes are parasitic flatworms of the class Trematoda, specifically parasitic flukes with two suckers: one ventral and the other oral.
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Trithemis
Trithemis is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
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Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿; – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist.
Vagrant darter
The vagrant darter (Sympetrum vulgatum) is a European dragonfly.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Vortex shedding
In fluid dynamics, vortex shedding is an oscillating flow that takes place when a fluid such as air or water flows past a bluff (as opposed to streamlined) body at certain velocities, depending on the size and shape of the body.
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Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.
Zootaxa
Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists.
Zuni people
The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Dragonflies
- Aeshnoidea
- Austrocorduliidae
- Cordulagomphus
- Cordulegastroidea
- Dendroaeschna
- Dragonfly
- Epiophlebia
- Epiophlebia laidlawi
- Epiophlebia superstes
- FlyTech Dragonfly
- Gomphomacromiidae
- Libelluloidea
- List of dragonflies
- Proterogomphidae
- Sinaeschnidia
- Stenophlebia
- Tetracanthagyna plagiata
Extant Pennsylvanian first appearances
- Amblypygi
- Amniote
- Beetle
- Ceratodontiformes
- Chiridotidae
- Conifer
- Diapsid
- Diplura
- Dragonfly
- Echiura
- Eupelycosauria
- Eureptilia
- Hemiptera
- Holometabola
- Isopoda
- Mayflies
- Mayfly
- Neoptera
- Octopodiformes
- Octopus
- Odonatoptera
- Phreatoicidea
- Phrynidae
- Priapulida
- Priapulimorphida
- Pterygota
- Remipedia
- Reptile
- Ricinulei
- Sauropsida
- Silverfish
- Solifugae
- Sphenacodontia
- Sphenacodontoidea
- Spider
- Synapsida
- Tetrapulmonata
- Textularia
- Triops
- Uropygi
- Zygentoma
Odonata
- Allenbya holmesae
- Damselflies
- Dapping
- Dragonflies
- Dragonfly
- Epiprocta
- External morphology of Odonata
- Obelisk posture
- Odonata
- Odonatology
- Okanagrion
- Philogeniidae
- Republica weatbrooki
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly
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