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Zygoptera

通用名稱：

Damselflies

分配：

Every continent except Antarctica

棲息地：

Freshwater habitats such as acidic bogs, ponds, lakes, and rivers

飲食：

Small crustacean, water fleas (nymph); flying insects (adult)

全球物種數量：

2,942

香港的物種數量：

42

形態學
（如何識別它們）：

-Smaller slimmer bodies than dragonflies
-Compound eyes widely separated
-Similar forewings and hindwings
-Wings folded close to the body when resting

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你可知道 ？

They are sexually dimorphic, so males are often more brightly colored. Nymphs moult repeatedly and during their last molt, they climb out of the water to undergo metamorphosis: their skin splits down their back, wings emerge and their abdomen is inflated to reach their adult form.

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