Band-winged dragonlet
Erythrodiplax umbrata
The band-winged dragonlet is a small dragonfly from the warm parts of the Americas. Dragonlet means little dragonfly. It belongs to the skimmers, dragonflies that love to sit on a twig and dart out after insects.
Lives in
The Caribbean, Central America and warm parts of North and South America, near water
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies have no sting. A big one may nip if you hold it, so just watch it fly.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects. Its babies live under water and hunt tiny water animals.
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)
Band-winged dragonlet about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives on Caribbean islands as well as on the mainland of North, Central and South America.
2
Scientists checked on it in 2017 and found that there are plenty of them and their numbers are steady.
3
Like all dragonflies, it starts life as a nymph that lives under water.
you asked
Most asked questions about Band-winged dragonlet
?Is the band-winged dragonlet endangered?
No. It is listed as least concern, and its numbers are stable.
?Where does the band-winged dragonlet live?
In the Caribbean and the warm parts of the Americas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erythrodiplax umbrata
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Erythrodiplax umbrata (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 JeffreyGammon. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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