Endangered
Metacnemis valida
Metacnemis valida
Metacnemis valida is a dragonfly or damselfly in the family Platycnemididae (order Odonata), recorded as Endangered.
The dragonfly or damselfly
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
Metacnemis valida (blue riverjack) is a damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat is rivers.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Metacnemis valida 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 English Wikipedia article on Metacnemis valida — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1821116. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
