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Notes on a Collection of Dragonflies (Odonata) from Nova Scotia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Carl Cook
Carl Cook
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Crailhope, Kentucky
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During the past four years Mr. Douglas C. Ferguson has collected dragonflies in Nova Scotia thereby greatly increasing our knowledge of the geographical distribution of these insects within the province. He very generously presented to the writer his entire collections comprising 327 specimens of 51 species, four of these being new records for the Maritime Provinces and two others being new for Nova Scotia. In the annotated list of species below these new records are indicated as follows: New records for the Maritime Provinces are indicated by a double asterisk (**). Records which are new for Nova Scotia only, are indicated by a single asterisk (*). A better representation of the widely distributed northern genus Somatochlora whould have been expected in a collection of this size made from the territory covered, in view of the fact that at least eight species are known to occur in thls territory. The reasons for their escaping capture is doubtless due, in part, to the restricted habitat occupied by many of the species, and in part to the difficulty of collecting specimens.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 82 , Issue 9 , September 1950 , pp. 190 - 194
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1950

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