Great Blue Skimmer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Anisoptera |
Family: | Libellulidae |
Genus: | Libellula |
Species: | L. vibrans |
Binomial name | |
Libellula vibrans (Fabricius, 1793) [1] |
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Range of L. vibrans [2][3] |
The Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. With a total length of 50 to 63 mm, it is one of the largest skimmers. Look for it near lakes, ponds, and slow streams in the eastern United States[4] and rarely in southern Ontario.[5]