Yellow-striped hunter
Austrogomphus guerini
Name means: “the southern peg, named after the scientist Guérin”
The yellow-striped hunter is a black and yellow dragonfly from southeastern Australia. It is small to medium in size. It lives near streams, rivers and lakes, where it hunts other flying insects.
Lives in
Eastern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia, near streams, rivers and lakes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies do not sting people.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects. Its babies live in the water and hunt there.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Yellow-striped hunter about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The end of the male's tail is wider, like a little club. That is where the peg in its name comes from.
2
Its name honours a French scientist who collected dragonflies brought home from a long sea voyage.
3
It lives as far south as the island of Tasmania.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-striped hunter
?Where does the yellow-striped hunter live?
In southeastern Australia and Tasmania, near streams, rivers and lakes.
?What does the yellow-striped hunter look like?
It is a black and yellow dragonfly, small to medium in size.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Austrogomphus guerini
- Named by
- Rambur, 1842
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Gomphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Gomphidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Austrogomphus guerini (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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