''Libellula comanche'', the Comanche 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. Ev ...
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It is found in Central America and North America.
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The IUCN conservation status of ''Libellula comanche'' is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.][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.]
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.
Further reading
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
Libellulidae
Insects described in 1907
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