Epitheca bimaculata

{{Speciesbox

|image = Epitheca_bimaculata_Charpentier_1840.png

|image_caption = Male and female

|image2 = Dvidėmė skėtė (Epitheca bimaculata) 20150530.jpg

|image2_caption = Photographed in Lithuania

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Boudot, J.-P. |date=2020 |title=Epitheca bimaculata |volume=2020 |page=e.T165482A140524274 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T165482A140524274.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

|genus = Epitheca

|species = bimaculata

|authority = (Charpentier, 1825)

|synonyms = {{species list

|Libellula bimaculata|Charpentier, 1825}}

}}

Epitheca bimaculata, the Eurasian baskettail or two-spotted dragonfly, is a species of dragonfly. It was described by Toussaint de Charpentier in 1825 and initially placed in the genus Libellula. It is the type species of the genus Epitheca.

Distribution

Its habitat ranges from Western France to Japan and eastern Siberia.

It has been found in Western Europe, but here it is "rare and seen very irregularly". It has also been found in Serbia, and Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Its occurrence in Hungary is "sporadic". It also is found in Ukraine.

Biology

It flies in May and June.

Former subspecies

Two subspecies were recognized, but they were synonymized in 2004:

Epitheca bimaculata sibirica {{small|(Selys, 1887)}}
Epitheca bimaculata altaica {{small|Belyshev, 1951}}

References

{{Reflist|refs=

{{citation|first=Toussaint |last=de Charpentier|title=Horae Entomologicae: Adjectis tabulis novem coloratis|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CIVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA43|year=1825|publisher=A. Gosohorsky|location=Wratislavia|pages=43–44|chapter=Libellula bimaculata}}

{{cite journal|last1=Martens|first1=K.|title=New localities for Epitheca bimaculata (Charp.), with a review of its status in Western Europe (Anisoptera: Corduliidae)|journal=Notulae Odonatologicae|date=1982|volume=1|issue=10|pages=157–159|url=http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/record/593285}}

{{cite journal|last1=Jović|first1=Miloš|last2=Andjus|first2=Ljiljana|last3=Santovac|first3=Svetozar|title=New data on some rare and poorly known Odonata species in Serbia|journal=Bulletin of the Natural History Museum|date=2009|volume=2|pages=102–103|url=http://www.nhmbeo.rs/upload/documents/casopisi/Glasnik/Vol02/Bulletin%20Vol2%20-%20Jovic%20et%20al.pdf|access-date=2017-09-26|archive-date=2019-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801125056/http://www.nhmbeo.rs/upload/documents/casopisi/Glasnik/Vol02/Bulletin%20Vol2%20-%20Jovic%20et%20al.pdf|url-status=dead}}

{{cite journal|last1=Jakab|first1=T.|last2=Müller|first2=Z.|last3=Dévai|first3=Gy.|last4=Tóthmérész|first4=B.|title=Dragonfly assemblages of a shallow lake type reservoir (Tisza-tó, Hungary) and its surroundings|journal=Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|date=2002|volume=48|issue=3|page=165|url=http://actazool.nhmus.hu/48/3/jakab.pdf}}

{{cite journal|last1=Buczyński|first1=Paweł|last2=Shapoval|first2=Anatoly P.|last3=Buczyńska|first3=Edyta|title=Pantala flavescens at the coast of the Baltic Sea (Odonata: Libellulidae)|journal=Odonatologica|date=2014|volume=43|issue=1/2|page=5|url=http://wazki.pl/linkowane_publikacje/2014Odonatologica.pdf}}

{{cite journal|last1=Khrokalo|first1=L. A.|last2=Sheshurak|first2=P. M.|title=Flight Seasonality of Dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) in Northeastern Ukraine|journal=Vestnik Zoologii|date=2006|volume=40|issue=2|page=148|url=http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/9430}}

{{cite journal|last1=Kosterin|first1=O. E.|title=Odonata of the Daurskiy State Nature Reserve area, Transbaikalia, Russia|journal=Odonatologica|date=2004|volume=33|issue=1|pages=56–57|url=http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/record/592459}}

{{cite journal|last1=de Selys-Longchamps|first1=[E.]|title=Odonates de l'Asie Mineure, et révision de ceux de autres parties de faune paléarctique (dite européenne)|journal=Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique|date=1887|volume=31|page=59|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12279291}}

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Epitheca bimaculata

Distribution

Biology

Former subspecies

References

Further reading