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Ischnura aurora

Blue-tip Damselfly

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blue-tip Damselfly

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Piongi (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - Indonesia/Australia - Cooks - ?

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - widespread and common; N.Group ?; Land, lowlands, young in Freshwater

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Biocontrol - natural

KEY FEATURES: Damselfly with WS to 30mm. MALE abdomen with red, tip blue and black; wing-tip rectangle (=pterostigma) orange and relatively long. FEMALE abdomen tip not blue.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
++++					P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			++++

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Ischnura aurora Brauer, 1865
SYNONYMS: Ischnura delicata Hagen, 1876; Ischnura bhimtalensis Sahni, 1965

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Odonata; Zygoptera; COENAGRIONIDAE (=Agrionidae)

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: specimens, 1950-51, in Lieftinck 1953; specimens Avatiu Valley, 9/1969, Wise (1980); specimen 10/1975 in Walker & Dietz 1979; specimen, lowland, 8/1997, L.Doig.; specimens+photo, 1999, BESO, ID David Goodger-BrMus. Aitutaki: Lieftinck53 as Ischnura aurora; specimens, 9/1969, Wise (1980). Pukapuka: specimens+photo, PK030, 2/2004, common everywhwere, ID GMcC.

References:
Special Reference: W&D79 as $Ischnura aurora@.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM03a, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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