Aciagrion fragile is a species of
damselfly in the family
Coenagrionidae,[3]
commonly known as a blue slim.[4]
It is a small, slender damselfly, the male is blue and black.[4]
It has been recorded from northern
Australia,
New Guinea and the
Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia,[5]
where it inhabits still waters and swamps.[6]
Etymology
The species name fragile is a Latin word meaning fragile, or easily broken. In 1906,
Robin Tillyard named this species probably in contrast to other members of the genus Ischnura, where it had been provisionally placed.[7][8] While the name was originally spelled "fragilis", the
ICZN mandates that species names that are adjectival must agree in gender with the genus name, so when this species was moved to the genus Aciagrion, which is neuter in
grammatical gender, the spelling of the species name changed to fragile.[3]
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abTheischinger, Günther; Hawking, John (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 98.
ISBN978-0-64309-073-6.
^Watson, J.A.L.; Theischinger, G.; Abbey, H.M. (1991). The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melbourne: CSIRO.
ISBN0643051368.