| Brilliant emerald | |
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| teneral male | |
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| teneral female both Moat Pond,Thursley Common,Surrey | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Infraorder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Corduliidae |
| Genus: | Somatochlora |
| Species: | S. metallica |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatochlora metallica (Vander Linden, 1825) | |
| Synonyms | |
Thebrilliant emerald,Somatochlora metallica, is a middle-sizedspecies ofdragonfly. It is the largest and greenest of theSomatochlora species; 50–55 millimetres (2.0–2.2 in) long.[4]
S. metallica is found across most of northernEurasia where it is the commonest of itsgenus.[4] InGreat Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland.[5]
The East AsianSomatochlora vera,scientifically described in 1914 byAleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen fromUssuri,Siberia[6] (and later also reported in northern China[7]), is typically treated as part ofS. metallica,[3][7] but has also been considered a synonym of the East AsianS. exuberata.[8]
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