Ophiogomphus australis

Ophiogomphus australis, the southern snaketail,^[2] is a dragonfly in the genus Ophiogomphus ("snaketails"), in the family Gomphidae ("clubtails").^[3][4] Ophiogomphus australis is found in North America.^[4]

Ophiogomphus australis
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Gomphidae
Genus:	Ophiogomphus
Species:	O. australis
Binomial name
Ophiogomphus australis Carle, 1992

The IUCN conservation status of Ophiogomphus australis is "NT", Near Threatened. The population is decreasing.^[5]

References

1. Abbott, J.C.; Paulson, D.R. (2018). "Ophiogomphus australis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T63223A80686432. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T63223A80686432.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Encyclopedia of Life Ophiogomphus australis species overview.
3. bugguide.net Ophiogomphus australis species information.
4. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
5. Odonata Central, University of Alabama

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