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Emerald Dragonflies
Corduliidae
The insect family Corduliidae contains the emerald dragonflies or green-eyed skimmers. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes. The larvae are black, hairy-looking, and usually semiaquatic. Members of this family include the baskettails, emeralds, river cruisers, sundragons, shadowdragons, and boghaunters. They are not uncommon and are found nearly worldwide, but some individual species are quite rare. Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora...
17 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 149 known species
Baskettails
genusEpitheca
Hemicordulia
genusHemicordulia
Striped Emerald Dragonflies
genusSomatochlora
Common Emerald Dragonflies
genusCordulia
Lesser Emerald Dragonflies
genusDorocordulia
Sundragons
genusHelocordulia
Shadowdragons
genusNeurocordulia
Boghaunters
genusWilliamsonia
Rialla
genusRialla
Heteronaias
genusHeteronaias
Antipodochlora
genusAntipodochlora
Corduliochlora
genusCorduliochlora
Metaphya
genusMetaphya
Paracordulia
genusParacordulia
Navicordulia
genusNavicordulia
Cordulisantosia
genusCordulisantosia
Guadalca
genusGuadalca
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61430.