Brilliant emerald

The brilliant emerald, Somatochlora metallica, is a middle-sized species of dragonfly. It is the largest and greenest of the Somatochlora species; 50–55 millimetres (2.0–2.2 in) long.[2]

Brilliant emerald
teneral male
teneral female
both Moat Pond, Thursley Common, Surrey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Corduliidae
Genus: Somatochlora
Species:
S. metallica
Binomial name
Somatochlora metallica
(Vander Linden, 1825)
Synonyms

S. metallica is found across most of northern Eurasia where it is the commonest of its genus.[2] In Great Britain, it is locally common in south east England and has a very restricted population in Scotland.[3]

The East Asian Somatochlora vera, scientifically described in 1914 by Aleksandr Bartenev based on a specimen from Ussuri, Siberia[4] (and later also reported in northern China[5]), is typically treated as part of S. metallica,[1][5] but has also been considered a synonym of the East Asian S. exuberata.[6]

References
  1. Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
  2. Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. (2006). Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing. ISBN 0-9531399-4-8.
  3. "The Brilliant Emerald". British Dragonfly Society.
  4. Steinmann, Henrik (1997). World Catalogue of Odonata II: Anisoptera. De Gruyter. p. 273.
  5. Zhang, Hao-Miao; Vogt, Timothy E.; Cai, Qing-hua (2014). "Somatochlora shennong sp. nov. from Hubei, China (Odonata: Corduliidae)". Zootaxa.
  6. Malikova, Elena I.; Kosterin, Oleg E. (2019). "Check-list of Odonata of the Russian Federation". Odonatologica. 48 (1/2): 49–78. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2677689.


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