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Libellulidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Odonata
family
Libellulidae

Name

Synonyms
Libellula eusebioi (Piton, 1935)
Libellula minuscula Oustalet, 1870
Platetrum eusebioi (Piton, 1935)
Homonyms
Libellulidae
Common names
Boochikwanishiyag (Oboodashkwaanishiinhyag) in Ojibwa
Common Skimmer in English
Common Skimmer in English
Common Skimmers in English
Common Skimmers in English
Common Skimmers in English
Common skimmers in language.
Kurzlibellen in German
Libeller in Danish
Libeller in Danish
Libellules "vraies" in French
Libellulide in Italian
Libellulidés in language.
Libélulas rayadoras in Spanish
Perchers in English
Platspāres in Latvian
Raštuotosios Skėtės in Lithuanian
Segellibellen in German
Skimmer in English
Skimmers in English
Skimmers in English
Skimmers in language.
Skimmers in language.
Skimmers in language.
Skimmers in English
Skimmers or Perchers in English
Vesikiillased in Estonian
Waterveërs in Afrikaans
Ważkowate in Polish
common skimmer in English
common skimmers in English
common skimmers in English
korenbouten in Dutch
korenbouten in Dutch
laposhasú acsák in Hungarian
libellulidés in French
libellulidés in French
ploščci in Slovenian
segeltrollsländor in Swedish
speidelibeller in Norwegian Bokmål
varsinaiset sudenkorennot in Finnish
varsinaiset sudenkorennot in Finnish
vážkovité in Slovak
vážkovití in Czech
Λιβελουλίδες in Greek, Modern (1453-)
Бабки справжні in Ukrainian
Настоящие стрекозы in Russian
טיסניתיים in Hebrew
แมลงปอบ้านสามัญ in Thai
トンボ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Askew, R.R. (1988)
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. Dijkstra, K.D.B. et al. (2002)
  5. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  6. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  7. Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle, 1999: A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution. Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56. 88.
  8. Paulson, Schorr, Abbott, Bota-Sierra, Deliry, Dijkstra & Lozano (2026) World Odonata List
  9. Wikispecies (2026) Wikispecies
  10. [Leach] (1815) Entomology, in The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, vol. IX, part 1
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