taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C087E9B674FF8139EFFFA9D97BFB2A.taxon	description	Wings narrow, thin and membranaceous, composed of numerous small areolets, the greater portion of which (especially towards the apex) are pentagonal, the fourth longitudinal nervure angulated; stigma oblong, rather large: abdomen slender, nearly linear, being a little dilated at the apex, which in the males is furnished with semicircular appendages, of the female with simple ones; w ings half expanded (as in Smerinthus) during repose. Mask of the larvae with a double projection on the upper edge of the mentum. Prom Agrion the species of this genus are distinguished with facility by the areolets of the wings being more numerous, and by the greater portion of them towards the apex, especially on the margins, being either pentagonal or polygonal, rarely quadrangular, the fourth longitudinal nervure being much angulated in numerous zigzags; the stigma is oblong, and the males are distinguished by having the apex of the abdomen armed with curved forceps; yet, regardless of these obvious distinctions, these insects, as well as those of the preceding genus, were long considered as constituting one species only, and are thus considered in the latest works of the celebrated Latreille, although the discrepancies of the two genera were pointed out by Leach in 1810 !!	en	Stephens, J. F. (1836): Illustrations of British Entomology; Mandibulata (excerpt). London: Baldwin and Cradock, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3530550
03C087E9B675FF813887F3E3DBA4F7B2.taxon	description	Head bright brassy-green; mouth and beneath yellow; tips of the mandibles black; collar brassy-green, with the sides and a dorsal line yellow in the females; thorax above bright grassy-green, with three slender longitudinal yellow lines, the sides and space between the wings luteous-yellow; abdomen above and on the sides rich brassy-green, beneath yellowish, the extreme edge of most of the basal segments also yellowish; upper caudal appendage in the male luteous, the tip fuscous; lower fuscous; legs luteous, black above; wings with a red or fuscescent stigma. Some examples are of a brighter and richer green than others, while some are bronzed. Not uncommon in the New Forest in June and July; also found near Wanstead in Essex, and in the vicinity of Ripley, and in Suffolk.	en	Stephens, J. F. (1836): Illustrations of British Entomology; Mandibulata (excerpt). London: Baldwin and Cradock, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3530550
03C087E9B675FF82387AFF68D867FDA1.taxon	description	Head bright brassy-green or bronzed above, the mouth and beneath yellowish; thorax also brassy-green above, with three fine yellowish streaks, the sides yellowish, each with a single irregular black streak; space between the wings dull luteous; abdomen above and on the sides brassy-green, beneath luteous; caudal appendages of the males fuscous, pale at the base; legs reddish, black above; wings with a black or fuscous stigma. Probably a mere variety of the foregoing insect. Found with the preceding insect.	en	Stephens, J. F. (1836): Illustrations of British Entomology; Mandibulata (excerpt). London: Baldwin and Cradock, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3530550
03C087E9B676FF8238DAF58BDF44FA1D.taxon	description	Head dull brassy-green, the mouth yellowish; tips of the mandibles black; collar with a yellowish margin behind; thorax above dull brassy-green, with three faint yellowish streaks, the sides and space between the wings covered with a fine blue bloom, on a dusky ground; abdomen brassy-green above, yellowish below, the terminal segments with a blue bloom; caudal appendages of the males black, sometimes luteous at the base; legs black, occasionally yellowish beneath, especially at the base; wings with a black or fuscous stigma. The female has the sides of the thorax luteous, without the blue gloss. Found abundantly in some of the marshy districts in the vicinity of the Thames, especially about Plaistow in Essex; also taken in the New Forest, in Devonshire, near Ripley, & c.	en	Stephens, J. F. (1836): Illustrations of British Entomology; Mandibulata (excerpt). London: Baldwin and Cradock, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3530550
