''Cordulegaster'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
dragonflies
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...
in the family
Cordulegastridae
The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera. They are commonly known as spiketails. Some vernacular names for the species of this family are biddie and flying adder. They have large, brown or black bodi ...
. It contains the following species:
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Cordulegaster annandalei''
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Cordulegaster bidentata'' – sombre goldenring
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Cordulegaster bilineata'' – brown spiketail
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Cordulegaster boltonii'' – golden-ringed dragonfly,
common goldenring
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Cordulegaster brevistigma''
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Cordulegaster diadema'' – Apache spiketail
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Cordulegaster diastatops'' – delta-spotted spiketail
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Cordulegaster dorsalis'' – Pacific spiketail
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Cordulegaster erronea'' – tiger spiketail
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Cordulegaster helladica''
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Cordulegaster heros'' – Balkan goldenring
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Cordulegaster insignis''
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Cordulegaster jinensis''
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Cordulegaster lunifera''
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Cordulegaster maculata'' – twin-spotted spiketail
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Cordulegaster magnifica''
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Cordulegaster mzymtae''
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Cordulegaster nachitschevanica''
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Cordulegaster obliqua'' – arrowhead spiketail
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Cordulegaster orientalis''
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Cordulegaster parvistigma''
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Cordulegaster picta'' – Turkish goldenring
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Cordulegaster plagionyx''
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Cordulegaster princeps''
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Cordulegaster sarracenia''
[Abbott, J.C. & Hibbitts, T.D. (2011). "''Cordulegaster sarracenia'', n. sp. (Odonata: Cordulegastridae) from east Texas and western Louisiana, with a kew to adult Cordulegastridae of the New World." ''Zootaxa'' 2899: 60-68.]
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Cordulegaster sayi'' – Say's spiketail
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Cordulegaster talaria'' – Ouachita spiketail
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Cordulegaster trinacriae'' – Italian goldenring
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Cordulegaster vanbrinkae''
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Cordulegaster virginiae''
References
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Cordulegastridae
Anisoptera genera
Taxa named by William Elford Leach
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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