Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae > Libellula > Libellula vibransLibellula vibrans (Great Blue Skimmer)The great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family.With a total length of 50 to 63 mm, it is one of the largest skimmers. The immature forms of the skimmer are brown in color and mature forms are blue hued.Look for it near lakes, ponds, and slow streams in the eastern United States and rarely in southern Ontario. |
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Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Floodplain Forest |
United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi) |
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Bald-cypress Floodplain Forest |
United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri, Texas) |
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Water Tupelo Swamp Forest |
United States (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia) |
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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