
thumb|Sympetrum commixtum, Nepal thumb|Sympetrum vicinum mating
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thumb|Sympetrum commixtum, Nepal thumb|Sympetrum vicinum mating
Sympetrum is a genus of small to medium-sized skimmer dragonflies, known as darters in Europe and as meadowhawks in North America. The more than 50 species predominantly live in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere; 11 species are native to Europe and 15 species native to North America, and most of the rest in Asia. A few species also occur in tropical and southern Africa (S. fonscolombii) and in South America (S. evanescens, S. gilvum, S. roraimae, S. villosum), but none is native to Australasia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).