Brilliant emerald
The brilliant emerald, Somatochlora metallica, is a middle-sized species of dragonfly. It is the largest and greenest of the Somatochlora species; 50–55 millimetres (2.0–2.2 in) long.[2]
| Brilliant emerald | |
|---|---|
| teneral male | |
| teneral female both Moat Pond, Thursley Common, Surrey | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Corduliidae |
| Genus: | Somatochlora |
| Species: | S. metallica |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825) | |
| Synonyms | |
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S. metallica is found across most of northern Eurasia where it is the commonest of its genus.[2] In Great Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland.[3]
The East Asian Somatochlora vera, scientifically described in 1914 by Aleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen from Ussuri, Siberia[4] (and later also reported in northern China[5]), is typically treated as part of S. metallica,[1][5] but has also been considered a synonym of the East Asian S. exuberata.[6]
References
- Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
- Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2006). Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing. ISBN 0-9531399-4-8.
- "The Brilliant Emerald". British Dragonfly Society.
- Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata II: Anisoptera. De Gruyter. p. 273.
- Zhang, Hao-Miao; Vogt, Timothy E.; Cai, Qing-hua (2014). "Somatochlora shennong sp. nov. from Hubei, China (Odonata: Corduliidae)". Zootaxa.
- Malikova, Elena I.; Kosterin, Oleg E. (2019). "Check-list of Odonata of the Russian Federation". Odonatologica. 48 (1/2): 49–78. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2677689.
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