Lesser Emperor

Lesser Emperor

Taxobox
name = Lesser Emperor


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Odonata
familia = Aeshnidae
genus = "Anax"
species = "A. parthenope"
binomial = "Anax parthenope"
binomial_authority = (Sélys, 1839 ["Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique", 6 (1839), 389] )
Original genus: "Aeshna"

The Lesser Emperor ("Anax parthenope") is an European dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae. It is widespread in Southern Europe. The Lesser Emperor Dragonfly has green eyes and a brownish thorax, which lacks the black markings common to many other members of its family. The abdomen is greenish brown and has a blue band at the top of the abdomen that extends down both sides of the abdomen. Adult males have territories around ponds.

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