Odonata Anisoptera Libellulidae Sympetrum flaveolum
Common name: Yellow tailed darter.
Regretably, this little beauty is not a natural resident of the United States.
You can tell this by drilling down to the species list at:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/dfly/usa/toc.htm
There are several internet websites that are laid out according to taxonomic systems in an attempt to chronicle all living organisms. Here is one such link for Insecta. To travel up the tree, click on the containing group link; in this case, hexapoda. To see members of insecta, click on branching links in the tree.
For instance, Odonata exists as a link at the end of the tree:
Pterygota
Insecta
Hexapoda
Arthropoda
Bilateria
Eukaryotes
Life on Earth
While the Infraorder sublinks are not clickable, (and therefore you cannot get to species level) there are, nevertheless, cool pictures and movies of dragonflys and damselflys to the right.
Compare this with the Wikipedia pages for dragonfly, where entries do more often branch to the species level and photos are creative commons licensed rather than private copyright. Information about the images above can be seen at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sympetrum_flaveolum_-_side_%28aka%29.jpg
Do you have cool photos of macroinvertebrates that you have identified? Why not share them with the internet world.
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