Rambur's Forktail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Suborder: | Zygoptera |
Family: | Coenagrionidae |
Genus: | Ischnura |
Species: | I.ramburii |
Binomial name | |
Ischnura ramburii (Selys, 1850) [1] |
Rambur's Forktail (Ischnura ramburii) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae. Males are green with blue on abdominal segments 8 and 9. Females orange-red, olive green, or may look like males.[2]
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Ponds, lakes, marshes, and slow streams with vegetation and sunlight.[2] Damselfly nymphs never live in salt water, but I. ramburii nymphs have been observed in brackish and even sulphurous waters.[3]
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps named this damselfly in honor of Jules Pierre Rambur,[4] an entomologist 12 years his senior. Rambur's collection of insects was one of several that was incorporated into that of Sélys.