''Leucorrhinia'' is a
genus of
dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...
in the family
Libellulidae
The skimmers or perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest dragonfly family in the world. It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily Macromiinae. Ev ...
. They are commonly called whitefaces because of their distinctive pale
frons.
Species
Listed alphabetically.
References
External links
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Whitefaces PBase
Whitefaces BugGuide
Libellulidae
Anisoptera genera
Taxa named by Christian Casimir Brittinger
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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