odonates part 1: dragonflies
**updated Jan 2024**
Odonates: dragonflies (big, wings out) and damselflies (small, wings up).
Dragonfly (infraorder Anisoptera) families include: darners, clubtails, emeralds, cruisers, & skimmers.
I got really into odes during the summer of 2020. Odes are now my second favorite group of animals behind birds.
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darners (family Aeshnidae)
clubtails (family Gomphidae)
emeralds (family Corduliidae)
cruisers (family Macromiidae)
skimmers (family Libellulidae)
this is the largest dragonfly family in the world, so I'm breaking it down into subgroups
pennants (mostly genus Calithemis, some others)
various skimmer genera located roughly here in the taxonomic sequence...
king skimmers (genus Libellula)
various skimmer genera located roughly here in the taxonomic sequence...
meadowhawks (genus Sympetrum) and saddlebags (genus Tramea)
