Rambur's Forktail

Rambur's Forktail
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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Habitat

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]

Etymology

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.

References

  1. ^ "Ischnura ramburii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102084. 
  2. ^ a b Abbott, John C. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton University Press. p. 140. ISBN 0691113645. 
  3. ^ Calvert, Philip P (October, 1893). Catalogue of the Odonata (Dragonflies) of the Vicinity of Philadelphia. American Entological Society. p. 204. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZS1DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=ramburii&f=false. 
  4. ^ Paulson, Dennis R; Dunkle, Sidney W (14 April 2009). A Checklist of North American Odonata. p. 21. 

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