Saturday, November 25, 2017

smallest living dragonfly is body length of 15 mm and a wing span of 20 mm Do I have smallest dragonfly in amber ?

smallest living dragonfly is body length of 15 mm and a wing span of 20 mm Do I have smallest dragonfly  in amber ?

The average size of a dragonfly is from 1 to 4 inches in length. In prehistoric times dragonflies were much larger - the largest flying insects ever. The largest member of extinct dragonflies had a wing span of about 70-75 cm or about 30 inches.

The Dragonfly - Beneficial Bugs

beneficialbugs.org/bugs/Dragonfly/dragonfly.htm

The smallest living dragonfly is Nannophya pygmaea(AnisopteraLibellulidae) from east Asia, which a body length of 15 mm and a wing span of 20 mm, and the smallest damselflies (and smallest odonates of all times) are species of the genus Agriocnemis(ZygopteraCoenagrionidae) with a wing span of only 17–18 mm.

Odonata - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odonata
I believe my dragonfly in Mexican amber is smaller still.......


15mm  equals 19/32 of an inch

20mm  equals  13/16 of an inch


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15mm  19/32 of an inch
16mm  5/8 of an inch
17mm  11/16 of an inch
18mm  23/32 of an inch
19mm  3/4 of an inch
20mm  13/16 of an inch
22mm  7/8 of a inch



17mm is 11/16 of an inch 18mm  23/32 of an inch



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What Was the Biggest Insect That Ever Lived? - Latest Stories


https://news.nationalgeographic.com/.../animal-science-insects-biggest-moth-weta-butt...

Oct 15, 2016 - The largest insect fossils ever found are griffinflies and giant dragonflies, says Matthew Clapham, a paleobiologist at the University of California ...


Dragonflies of the World - Page 37 - Google Books Result

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0643102493
Jill Silsby - 2001 - ‎Science
SIZE In Palaeozoic times, giant 'dragonflies' with wingspans of over 60 cm flew ... with a wingspan of 72 cm are among the largest fossil dragonflies yet discovered. ... One of the smallest is the libellulid Collection of Allen Davies Nannophya ...

The World's Largest Fossil Wilderness | History | Smithsonian

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-largest-fossil-wilderness-30745943/

Etched into ceilings of the mine shafts is the largest intact fossil forest ever seen—at least four ... Monster dragonflies with 2.5-foot wingspans ruled the skies.

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