Leucorrhinia is a genus of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. They are commonly called whitefaces because of their distinctive pale frons.

Whitefaces
Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Ruby whiteface) male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Subfamily: Leucorrhiniinae
Genus: Leucorrhinia
Brittinger, 1850[1]

Species

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Listed alphabetically.[2][3]

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Leucorrhinia albifrons (Burmeister, 1839) dark whiteface[4] Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
  Leucorrhinia borealis Hagen, 1890 boreal whiteface[5] North America
    Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840) lilypad whiteface[4] Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Leucorrhinia circassica Bartenev, 1929 North-Western Caucasus
    Leucorrhinia dubia (Van der Linden, 1825) white-faced darter,[6] small whiteface[4] northern Europe eastwards to Siberia
    Leucorrhinia frigida Hagen, 1890 frosted whiteface[5] United States and southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick.
Leucorrhinia glacialis Hagen, 1890 crimson-ringed whiteface[5] North America
  Leucorrhinia hudsonica (Selys, 1850) Hudsonian whiteface[5] northern West Virginia
  Leucorrhinia intacta (Hagen, 1861) dot-tailed whiteface[5] United States (Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming), Canada: (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia • Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)
Leucorrhinia intermedia Bartenev, 1912 Japan
Leucorrhinia orientalis Selys, 1887 Russia
  Leucorrhinia patricia Walker, 1940 Canada whiteface[5] North America
    Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825) large white-faced darter, yellow-spotted whiteface[4] western Siberia to parts of France.
    Leucorrhinia proxima Calvert, 1890 red-waisted whiteface,[7] belted whiteface[5]
    Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758) ruby whiteface[4] Northern Belgium and it is found through Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Fennoscandia, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.

References

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  1. ^ Leucorrhinia, funet.fi
  2. ^ Leucorrhinia Archived 2012-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, Zipcodezoo
  3. ^ Martin Schorr; Martin Lindeboom; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Checklist, English common names". DragonflyPix.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "North American Odonata". University of Puget Sound. 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Checklist of UK Species". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  7. ^ Dunkle, S. W. (2000). Dragonflies through Binoculars. OUP.
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