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Gomphurus
Sign in to savethumb|Gomphus vastus, cobra clubtail Gomphurus is a genus of clubtails in the family of dragonflies known as Gomphidae. There are about 13 described species in Gomphurus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 59
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Gomphidae
- Collections
- MSU, PSUC, INHS
- Recorded in
- United States
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thumb|Gomphus vastus, cobra clubtail Gomphurus is a genus of clubtails in the family of dragonflies known as Gomphidae. There are about 13 described species in Gomphurus.
Gomphurus was formerly considered a subgenus of Gomphus, but has recently been promoted to genus rank along with Phanogomphus, Stenogomphurus and Hylogomphus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gomphurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.