Libellula auripennis
{{Short description|Species of dragonfly}}
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| taxon = Libellula auripennis
| authority = Burmeister, 1839
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status2 = G5
| status2_system = TNC
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Libellula auripennis, the golden-winged skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family Libellulidae.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/3825|title=Libellula auripennis Species Information|website=BugGuide.net|accessdate=2018-02-04}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101901|title=Libellula auripennis Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=2018-02-04}} It is found in North America.
Conservation
The IUCN conservation status of Libellula auripennis is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.{{cite iucn |author=Paulson, D.R. |year=2017 |title=Libellula auripennis |volume=2017 |page=e.T51275269A80696408 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T51275269A80696408.en |access-date=16 December 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.odonatacentral.org/|title=Odonata Central|website=Odonata Central, University of Alabama|accessdate=2018-02-04}}Ball-Damerow JE, Oboyski PT, Resh VH (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys 482: 67-89.
References
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- Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Odonata". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551-580.
- Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle (1999). "A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56, 88.
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Further reading
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- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
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Category:Insects described in 1839
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