Leucorrhinia

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

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

Species

Listed alphabetically.

Male Female Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Leucorrhinia albifrons (Burmeister, 1839) dark whiteface 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 North America
Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840) lilypad whiteface 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, small whiteface northern Europe eastwards to Siberia
Leucorrhinia frigida Hagen, 1890 frosted whiteface United States and southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick.
Leucorrhinia glacialis Hagen, 1890 crimson-ringed whiteface North America
Leucorrhinia hudsonica (Selys, 1850) Hudsonian whiteface northern West Virginia
Leucorrhinia intacta (Hagen, 1861) dot-tailed whiteface 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 North America
Leucorrhinia pectoralis (Charpentier, 1825) large white-faced darter, yellow-spotted whiteface western Siberia to parts of France.
Leucorrhinia proxima Calvert, 1890 red-waisted whiteface, belted whiteface
Leucorrhinia rubicunda (Linnaeus, 1758) ruby whiteface Northern Belgium and it is found through Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Fennoscandia, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.



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