Common name: Dusky Dancer

Scientific name: Argia translata Hagen in Selys, 1865

Class:

Insecta (Insects)

Order:

Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

Family:

Coenagrionidae (Pond Damsels)

Synonyms:

Other common names:

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Habitat type(s):

Habitat description(s)

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Ecological systems and subsytems (about):

RIVERINE - NATURAL STREAMS:

Confined river* (guide)

The aquatic community of relatively large, fast flowing sections of streams with a moderate to gentle gradient.

LACUSTRINE - NATURAL LAKES AND PONDS:

Mesotrophic dimictic lake* (guide)

The aquatic community of a lake that is intermediate between an oligotrophic lake and a eutrophic lake. These lakes are dimictic: they have two periods of mixing or turnover (spring and fall); they are thermally stratified in the summer, and they freeze over and become inversely stratified in the winter.

* probable association but not confirmed.

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Conservation:

Global conservation status rank:

G5

Secure globally - Common in the world; widespread and abundant (but may be rare in some parts of its range).

State conservation status rank:

S1

Critically Imperiled in New York - Especially vulnerable to disappearing from New York due to extreme rarity or other factors; typically 5 or fewer populations or locations in New York, very few individuals, very restricted range, very few remaining acres (or miles of stream), and/or very steep declines.

Federal protection:

Not Listed

State protection:

Not Listed

Not listed or protected by New York State.

SGCN:

NYNHP track status:

Y: Track all extant and selected historical EOs

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More information:

Conservation guide:

https://guides.nynhp.org/dusky-dancer/

NatureServe explorer link:

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.118104/Argia_translata/