Euphaeidae

	Euphaeidae Euphaeidae, sometimes incorrectly named Epallagidae and commonly called gossamerwings, is a family of damselflies in the odonate superfamily Calopterygoidea. The family is small, consisting of around 78 species living species in nine genera occurring in the Palearctic, Australasia, and Asia. The family contains two subfamilies, Euphaeinae, encompassing all the living species and a single fossil genus, and the extinct Eodichromatinae, encompassing fossil genera from the Eocene to late Oligocene. Euphaeid species are large and mostly metallic-coloured, looking similar to species of damselflies in the family Calopterygidae. The larvae have seven pairs of supplementary gills along the abdomen in addition to the usual three sac-like gills at the tip of the abdomen. Adults have the fore- and hindwings of equal length, barely petiolate and a long pterostigma that is broader in the hindwing. Adults have close veins and numerous antenodals (15-38), and most breed in forest streams. Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Damselfly Damselflies are flying insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller and have slimmer bodies. Most species fold the wings along the body when at rest, unlike dragonflies which hold the wings flat and away from the body. An ancient group, damselflies have existed since at least the Lower Permian, and are found on every continent except Antarctica. All damselflies are predatory insects; both nymphs and adults actively hunt and eat other insects. The nymphs are aquatic, with different species living in a variety of freshwater habitats including acidic bogs, ponds, lakes and rivers. The nymphs moult repeatedly, at the last moult climbing out of the water to undergo metamorphosis. The skin splits down the back, they emerge and inflate their wings and abdomen to gain their adult form. Their presence on a body of water indicates that it is relatively unpolluted, but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Klondike Mountain Formation The Klondike Mountain Formation is an Early Eocene (Ypresian) geological formation located in the northeast central area of Washington state. The formation, named for the type location designated in 1962, Klondike Mountain north of Republic, Washington, is composed of volcanic rocks in the upper unit and volcanics plus lacustrine (lakebed) sedimentation in which a lagerstätte with exceptionally well-preserved plant and insect fossils has been found, along with fossil epithermal hot springs. The formation is the youngest in a group of formations which belong to the Challis Sequence rocks. The formation unconformably overlies rocks of the Eocene Sanpoil Volcanics and much older Triassic and Permian formations. The formation is bounded on its edges by a series of high-angle strike slip faults, which have contained the Klondike Mountain Formation in a series of graben structures, such as the Republic Graben. Public access to a fossiliferous outcrop at the north end of Republic is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Euphaea Fraseri ''Euphaea fraseri'', Malabar torrent dart, is a species of damselfly in the family Euphaeidae. This species is endemic to the Western Ghats; known to occur in various locations up to Goa. Description and habitat It is a medium sized damselfly with black head and brown-capped pale grey eyes. Its thorax is black, marked with sky-blue antehumeral and reddish-yellow humeral stripes. Lateral sides of the thorax in the base is red. Legs are red as in '' Euphaea cardinalis''; but first pair is dark. Wings are narrower than '' Euphaea cardinalis''; hind-wings are shorter than fore-wings. Fore-wings are transparent, merely enfumed with brown on the apices. Hind-wings are transparent; but one third of the wings from the apices are broadly black. Abdomen is bright red up to the segment 7; apical third of segment 7 to the end segment are black. Anal appendages are black. Female is short and robust; the ochreous-red of male is replaced with yellow colors. All wings are transparent, enfumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Calopterygoidea Calopterygoidea is a superfamily of damselflies in the order Odonata. Families * Amanipodagrionidae * Amphipterygidae Tillyard, 1917 * Argiolestidae Fraser, 1957 * Calopterygidae Selys, 1850 (broad-winged damselflies) * Chlorocyphidae Cowley, 1937 * Devadattidae Dijkstra, 2014 * Dicteriadidae Montgomery, 1959 * Euphaeidae Yakobson & Bianchi, 1905 * Heteragrionidae Rácenis, 1959 * Hypolestidae Fraser, 1938 * Lestoideidae Munz, 1919 * Megapodagrionidae Calvert, 1913 * Mesagrionidae * Mesopodagrionidae * Pentaphlebiidae Novelo-Gutiérrez, 1995 * Philogangidae Kennedy, 1920 * Philogeniidae Rácenis, 1959 * Philosinidae Kennedy, 1925 * Polythoridae Munz, 1919 * Protolestidae * Pseudolestidae Fraser, 1957 * Rhipidolestidae * Rimanellidae Davies & Tobin, 1984 * Tatocnemididae * Thaumatoneuridae Thaumatoneuridae is a family of damselflies in the order Odonata Odonata is an order of flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies. Members of the group fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Aix-en-Provence Formation Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The population of Aix-en-Provence is approximately 145,000. Its inhabitants are called ''Aixois'' or, less commonly, ''Aquisextains''. History Aix (''Aquae Sextiae'') was founded in 123 BC by the Roman consul Sextius Calvinus, who gave his name to its springs, following the destruction of the nearby Gallic oppidum at Entremont. In 102 BC its vicinity was the scene of the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, where the Romans under Gaius Marius defeated the Ambrones and Teutones, with mass suicides among the captured women, which passed into Roman legends of Germanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]