Boyeria [SEP] parent taxon
Boyeria
Boyeria is a genus of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae, commonly called spotted darners. They occur in temperate North America and Eurasia.
The name "Boyeria" commemorates the French entymologist Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe
The genus contains the following seven described species:
- "Boyeria cretensis" – Cretan spectre
- "Boyeria grafiana" – ocellated darner
- "Boyeria irene" – western spectre
- "Boyeria jamjari"
- "Boyeria karubei"
- "Boyeria maclachlani"
of each taxon have been observed, respectively. Only one individual each of the genera "Isonychia", "Amphinemura", "Cheumatopsyche", "Rhycophila", "Neophylax", "Psephenus", "Boyeria", "Tabanus", and "Cambarus" were observed.
The wetlands at the headwaters of Spring Brook are home to boreal forest trees. These include black spruce, paper birch, and tamarack. Huckleberry, lady's slipper, leather leaf, mountain laurel, pitcher plant, and rhododendron plants