Nasiaeschna

Nasiaeschna
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Aeshnidae
Genus: Nasiaeschna
Selys in Förster, 1900
Species:
N. pentacantha
Binomial name
Nasiaeschna pentacantha
(Rambur, 1842)

Nasiaeschna pentacantha, the Cyrano darner, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae, and the only extant species in the genus Nasiaeschna. It is native to eastern North America.[1][2][3][4][5] A single fossil species, †Nasiaeschna miocenica Claisse, Brisac & Nel, 2019, is known from the Late Miocene of France, suggesting they persisted in Europe up until relatively recently.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Nasiaeschna Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Nasiaeschna". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ "Odonata Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  5. ^ Claisse, Penelope; Brisac, Patrick; Nel, André (2019-06-24). "The first fossil representative of the Nearctic genus Nasiaeschna in France (Odonata: Aeshnidae)". Palaeoentomology. 2 (3): 219–222. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.4. ISSN 2624-2834.

Further reading

  • Silsby, Jill (2001). Dragonflies of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560989592.
  • Steinmann, Henrik (1997). Wermuth, Heinz; Fischer, Maximilian (eds.). World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera. Das Tierreich. Vol. 111. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-014934-0.
  • Needham, James G.; Westfall Jr., Minter J. Jr.; May, Michael L. (2000). Dragonflies of North America. Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-0-945417-94-1.
  • Kalkman, V. J. (2013). Studies on phylogeny and biogeography of damselflies (Odonata) with emphasis on the Argiolestidae (PhD). Leiden University. hdl:1887/22953.
  • Media related to Nasiaeschna at Wikimedia Commons


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