''Synthemiopsis gomphomacromioides'', also known as the Tasmanian spotwing,
is a species of
dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...
from southern and north-western
Tasmania
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Australia.
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
''Synthemiopsis'' and has also been placed in its own tribe
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, Synthemiopsini.[ R. J. Tillyard, who first described it, considered it intermediate between the Australian genus '']Synthemis
''Synthemis'' is a genus of dragonfly, dragonflies in the family Synthemistidae.
Species of ''Synthemis'' are medium-sized, slender, black and yellow dragonflies.
Species
The genus includes these species:
Gallery
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an '' Gomphomacromia''. He had material from swamps around Cradle Mountain
Cradle Mountain is a locality and mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Tasmania. The mountain is situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.
At above sea level, it is the sixth-highest mount ...
, at about altitude, and from Flowerdale Creek near Wynyard Wynyard may refer to:
Australia:
*Wynyard, Sydney, the district of Sydney CBD around Wynyard railway station, Sydney
*Wynyard Park, Sydney
*Wynyard, Tasmania
*County of Wynyard, in the Murrumbidgee–Tumut region of New South Wales
Canada:
*Wynya ...
. ''Synthemiopsis gomphomacromioides'' flies rapidly over the swamps and often sits on reeds. It occurs together with '' Synthemis tasmanica'', a similar but duller-coloured species.[
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Documentation
Tillyard described ''Synthemiopsis gomphomacromioides'' in 1917 on the basis of both adults and larvae,