Asthenocnemis linnaei

The dragonfly or damselfly

The wingspan of the male is between 24 and 26 millimeters (the forewings, the hindwings are slightly shorter) and the length of the body is 35 to 39 millimeters.

The species is described in a special issue of Zoological Communications, published by Naturalis, that was published on January 1, 2008 in honor of the 250th anniversary of zoological nomenclature.

Dragonflies and damselflies are aerial predators as adults and aquatic predators as nymphs. Both stages need unpolluted water.

An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.

Range and habitat

The species is known from the island of Dumuran, Philippines. Due to the loss of forests on this island, this species is at risk of extinction.

GBIF currently lists 3 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Life history

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

Asthenocnemis linnaei is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the Dutch Wikipedia article on Asthenocnemis linnaei, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q654251 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.