Chapter 07
Insects
The unseen majority — insects of the Andean cloud forest.
Identifications reviewed by Cornelio Bota-Sierra Grupo de Entomología, Universidad de Antioquia
The chapter opens with Odonata — the dragonflies and damselflies — because
they are the insects a stream declares itself through. Their larvae live in
the water and the adults stay close to it, so the assemblage along a given
reach describes that water rather than the landscape around it.
Odonata is divided into two suborders, and both have a section here: Zygoptera, the damselflies, and Anisoptera, the dragonflies.
Families
1 of 2 documented
