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Sympetrum danae (Black Darter)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sympetrum danae, the black darter or black meadowhawk is a dragonfly found in northern Europe, Asia, and North America. At about 30 mm (1.2 in) long, it is Britain's smallest resident dragonfly. It is a very active late summer insect typical of heathland and moorland bog pools. Members of the genus Sympetrum are known as darters in the UK and as meadowhawks in the US and Canada.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Upper Danube Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    

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Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aeshna juncea (Common Hawker)[2]
Dytiscus marginalis (Predaceous diving beetle)[2]
Holocentropus picicornis[1]
Notonecta glauca (Water boatman)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plagiorchis elegans[4]
Pleurogenoides medians[4]
Prosotocus confusus[4]
Skrjabinoeces similis[4]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Temporal Variation in Food Web Structure: 16 Empirical Cases, Kenneth Schoenly and Joel E. Cohen, Ecological Monographs, 61(3), 1991, pp. 267–298
♦ 3Ecology of Commanster
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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