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Azure Damselfly of Azores

Ischnura hastata

Vulnerable

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On the Azores, this species has evolved the only known all-female population of any odonate. These females reproduce through parthenogenesis.

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The Azores population is entirely female and reproduces without mating, a phenomenon unique among dragonflies and damselflies.