Corduliidae

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|authority=Selys, 1850{{Cite journal|last=Selys-Longchamps|first=E.|year=1850|title=Revue des odonates ou libellules d'Europe|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16236413|journal=Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège |language=French|volume=6 |pages=1–408 [66]|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

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Corduliidae, also knowns as the emeralds, emerald dragonflies, or green-eyed skimmers, is a family of dragonflies. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes. The larvae are black, hairy-looking, and usually semiaquatic. This family include species called "baskettails", "emeralds", "sundragons", "shadowdragons", and "boghaunters". They are not uncommon and are found nearly worldwide, but some individual species are quite rare. Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana), for example, is an endangered species in the United States.

Corduliidae are known to occasionally take quantities of their eggs at the tip of their stomach, before then sticking their eggs in mud or water using a sprout-like appendage that extends from their abdomens.{{Cite book |last=Marshall |first=Stephen A. |title=Insects: their natural history and diversity; with a photographic guide to insects of eastern North America |date=2006 |publisher=Firefly Books |isbn=978-1-55297-900-6 |edition=2. printing |series=A Firefly book |location=Buffalo, NY}}

Selected genera

Some genera included in this family are:{{World Odonata List}}

Aeschnosoma {{small|Selys, 1870}}
Antipodochlora {{small|Fraser, 1939}} – dusk dragonfly
Cordulia {{small|Leach, 1815}} – American emeralds
Corduliochlora {{small|Marinov & Seidenbusch, 2007}}
Cordulisantosia {{small|Fleck & Costa, 2007}}
Dorocordulia {{small|Needham, 1901}} – little emeralds
Epitheca {{small|Burmeister, 1839}} – baskettails
Guadalca {{small|Kimmins, 1957}}
Helocordulia {{small|Needham, 1901}} – sundragons
Hemicordulia {{small|Selys, 1870}} - emeralds{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Hemicordulia|title=Genus Hemicordulia Selys, 1870|date=18 July 2012|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=4 February 2017}}
Heteronaias {{small|Needham & Gyger, 1937}}
Libellulosoma {{small|Martin, 1907}}
Metaphya {{small|Laidlaw, 1912}} – emeralds{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Metaphya|title=Genus Metaphya Laidlaw, 1912|date=19 July 2012|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=4 February 2017}}
Navicordulia {{small|Machado & Costa, 1995}}
Neurocordulia {{small|Selys, 1871}} – shadowdragons
Paracordulia {{small|Martin, 1906}}
Pentathemis {{small|Karsch, 1890}} – metallic tigerhawk{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Pentathemis|title=Genus Pentathemis Karsch, 1890|date=19 July 2012|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=4 February 2017}}
Procordulia {{small|Martin, 1907}} – emeralds{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Procordulia|title=Genus Procordulia Martin, 1907|date=18 July 2012|website=Australian Faunal Directory|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study|access-date=4 February 2017}}
Schizocordulia {{small|Machado, 2005}}
Somatochlora {{small|Selys, 1871}} – striped emeralds
Williamsonia {{small|Davis, 1913}} – boghaunters

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20091027102958/http://geocities.com/brisbane_dragons/CORDULIIDAE.htm Several Emerald Photos]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928222551/http://www.hinesdragonfly.org/ Hine's Emerald Dragonfly Fan Page]

Category:Libelluloidea

Category:Odonata families

Category:Odonata of Australia

Category:Taxa named by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

Category:Dragonflies