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Tropical Pennants
Brachymesia
Brachymesia is a genus of dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. They are commonly known as tropical pennants.
One species, B. gravida is confined to the United States. The others occur over much of South America, the West Indies and southern USA states.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Four-spotted Pennant
speciesBrachymesia gravida
Red-tailed Pennant
speciesBrachymesia furcata
Tawny Pennant
speciesBrachymesia herbida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68231.