Green and gossamer, and not gone: A Sri Lankan dragonfly flits back to life

Mongabay
Dec 3, 2022, 10:03 am636 ptsHot
COLOMBO — The first time that scientists described the beautiful metallic-green dragonfly that they would later call Flint’s cruiser was in 1970. Based on a single dead male specimen, they named the species Macromia flinti, endemic to Sri Lanka. And then, for the next half century, they never saw another…

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