Libellula comanche
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| image = Comanche Skimmer - Libellula comanche, Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Roswell, New Mexico - 7300107892.jpg
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Libellula
| species = comanche
| authority = Calvert, 1907
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Libellula comanche, the Comanche skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family Libellulidae.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/129139|title=Libellula comanche Species Information|website=BugGuide.net|access-date=2018-01-30}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101908|title=Libellula comanche Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|access-date=2018-01-30}} It is found in Central America and North America.
The IUCN conservation status of Libellula comanche is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The population is stable.{{cite web|url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/|title=List of Endangered Species|website=IUCN Red List|access-date=2018-01-30}}{{cite web|url=https://www.odonatacentral.org/|title=Odonata Central|website=Odonata Central, University of Alabama|access-date=2018-01-30}}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 1907
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