Lestes viridis

Stephens, J. F., 1836, Illustrations of British Entomology; Mandibulata (excerpt), London: Baldwin and Cradock : 77

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3530550

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5522697

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scientific name

Lestes viridis
status

 

Sp. 1. viridis View in CoL . Supra lateribusque viridi-oenea, nitens, subtusJlavescens, pedibus luteis supra atris, stigmate rufo. (Long. corp. 17—18 lin.; Exp. Alar. 20— 21 lin.)

Ag. viridis View in CoL . Van. Linden, p. 36.— Le. sponsa. Steph. Catal. 308. No. 3420.

Head bright brassy-green; mouth and beneath yellow; tips of the mandibles black; collar brassy-green, with the sides and a dorsal line yellow in the females; thorax above bright grassy-green, with three slender longitudinal yellow lines, the sides and space between the wings luteous-yellow; abdomen above and on the sides rich brassy-green, beneath yellowish, the extreme edge of most of the basal segments also yellowish; upper caudal appendage in the male luteous, the tip fuscous; lower fuscous; legs luteous, black above; wings with a red or fuscescent stigma.

Some examples are of a brighter and richer green than others, while some are bronzed.

Not uncommon in the New Forest in June and July; also found near Wanstead in Essex, and in the vicinity of Ripley, and in Suffolk.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Lestidae

Genus

Lestes

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