Endangered
Rhionaeschna galapagoensis
Rhionaeschna galapagoensis
Rhionaeschna galapagoensis is a dragonfly or damselfly in the family Aeshnidae (order Odonata), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
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
It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands.
GBIF currently lists 55 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
The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, assessment year 2006.
Rhionaeschna galapagoensis 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 Rhionaeschna galapagoensis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2693622 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
