''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 dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threat ...
from southern and north-western
Tasmania
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,
Australia
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.
genus
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''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'' and the ]Chile
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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. ''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,