San Francisco Forktail

Ischnura gemina

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Coenagrionidae

Ischnura gemina is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae known by the common name San Francisco forktail. It is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area in California in the United States. This uncommon insect has a total range of less than 500 square miles in the Bay Area, occurring only in greater San Francisco and parts of San Mateo and Marin Counties.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 11

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Laura Castellini, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionIschnura gemina, Wikipedia contributors

San Francisco Forktail

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