Anisoptera

suborder of insects with long strong bodies and two pairs of wings
Taxon taxon Q80066
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Summary

Anisoptera is a taxon[1]. Anisoptera ranks in the top 0.18% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,971 views/month, #353 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: suborder[3]
  • Parent taxon: Odonata[4], Neoanisoptera[5], Epiprocta[6]
  • Taxon name: Anisoptera[7]
  • Subclass of: Pterygota[8]
  • Commons category: Anisoptera[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dragonflies[10]
  • Commons gallery: Anisoptera[11]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Taxon common name: Dragonflies[14], libeller[15], raznokrili kačji pastirji[16]
  • Different from: Zygoptera[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
  • Taxon author citation: Selys, 1854[19]
  • Homonymous taxon: Anisoptera[20]
  • P14607: B6LCL[21]

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Identifiers

Anisoptera's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47927[22]. Anisoptera's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6962[23]. Anisoptera's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2762968[24]. Anisoptera's ITIS TSN is recorded as 101594[25].

Why It Matters

Anisoptera has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Anisoptera is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . World Odonata List. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . bechly.lima-city.de. Retrieved . bechly.lima-city.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . World Odonata List. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [25] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [24] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . World Odonata List. wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · John Tann · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'ban', 'bat_smg', 'bcl', 'be', 'bjn', 'bn', 'ca', 'cd
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Parent taxon: Odonata"
  2. 5w ago · John Tann · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range map image → Anisoptera distribution map.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon range map image: Anisoptera distribution map.svg"
  3. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → dragonflies
    Gbif taxon id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: dragonflies, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932370|dragonflies (#289932370)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  4. 14w ago · PieterJanR · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gbif taxon id → —
    Fauna europaea new id → —
    P14607 → B6LCL
    Taxon author citation → Selys, 1854
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14607: B6LCL"
  5. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0380791-sidla
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0380791-sidla, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Odonata, Neoanisoptera, Epiprocta
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → Pterygota
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 38075, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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