A Dragonfly In Flight. Stock Photography

A dragonfly in flight. Dragonflies (lat. Odonata) — a team of well-flying predatory insects. Relatively large, with movable head, large eyes, short antennae setaceous, with four transparent wings with a dense network of veins elongated and slender abdomen. The number of described species of dragonflies according to August 2013 — 6650, including 608 fossil. The majority of modern species live in the tropics and humid subtropics. In Russia, dragonflies are widely distributed throughout the country (except arid areas), the fauna includes about 150 species.