Orange-spotted Emerald
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Oxygastra curtisii
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Description
The Orange-spotted Emerald has bright green eyes and yellow or orange, elongated spots along the length of the dorsal surface of the abdomen. The thorax and ground colour of the slender abdomen is brown
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53mm
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Extinct in Britain, probably due to pollution of its last known habitat on the Moors river in Dorset. Last recorded in 1957.
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Associated with muddy, slow-flowing rivers and streams.
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O. curtisii