Horned clubtail
| Horned clubtail | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Anisoptera |
| Family: | Gomphidae |
| Genus: | Arigomphus |
| Species: | A. cornutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Arigomphus cornutus (Tough, 1900) | |
The horned clubtail (Arigomphus cornutus) is a clubtail dragonfly of Canada and the United States.
The horned clubtail is 2.2 inches (56 mm) long and lacks an abdominal club. It has a greenish thorax with black stripes and a black abdomen with a light stripe along the top. It has blue eyes and black legs. It also has distinctive wide forked yellow claspers shaped like cow horns and a large sloped bridge between the eyes.
The horned clubtail lives in ponds and sluggish streams. Its range includes Canada and several U.S. states:
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Montana – Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, and Wibaux Counties; only in artificial reservoirs.
- Nebraska – Cherry and Cuming Counties
- New York – (rarely)
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
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