''Libellula auripennis'', the golden-winged skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family

Libellulidae The skimmers or perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest dragonfly family in the world. It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily Macromiinae. E ...

. It is found in North America.

Conservation

The IUCN conservation status of ''Libellula auripennis'' is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.Paulson, D.R. 2017. Libellula auripennis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T51275269A80696408. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T51275269A80696408.en. Accessed on 16 December 2022.Ball-Damerow JE, Oboyski PT, Resh VH (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ''ZooKeys 482'': 67-89. Libellula auripennis P1010310a

References

* Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Odonata". ''Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America'', vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551-580. * 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.

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