Paltothemis lineatipes, commonly known as the red rock skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family Libellulidae. It is found in the Americas.
Paltothemis lineatipes is considered to be least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population is stable.Ball-Damerow JE, Oboyski PT, Resh VH (2015). "California dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) database: temporal and spatial distribution of species records collected over the past century". ZooKeys 482: 67-89.
References
Garrison, Rosser W. / Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1997). "Odonata". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders, 551–580. Paulson, Dennis R., and Sidney W. Dunkle (1999). "A Checklist of North American Odonata including English name, etymology, type locality, and distribution". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Occasional Paper no. 56, 88. Steinmann, Henrik / Wermuth, Heinz, and Maximilian Fischer, eds. (1997). "World Catalogue of Odonata, Volume II: Anisoptera". Das Tierreich, vol. 111, part, xiv + 636.
Further reading
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Paltothemis lineatipes