Ophiogomphus australis explained

Ophiogomphus australis, the southern snaketail,^[1] is a dragonfly in the genus Ophiogomphus ("snaketails"), in the family Gomphidae ("clubtails").^{[2] [3]} Ophiogomphus australis is found in North America.^[3]

The IUCN conservation status of Ophiogomphus australis is "NT", Near Threatened. The population is decreasing.^[4]

Further reading

• American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico, Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
• Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). Odonata. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551-580.
• Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle (1999). A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution. Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56, 88.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Ophiogomphus australis

Notes and References

1. http://eol.org/pages/1034008/overview Encyclopedia of Life
2. https://bugguide.net/node/view/43534 bugguide.net
3. https://www.itis.gov/ Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
4. https://www.odonatacentral.org/ Odonata Central, University of Alabama