赤蜻屬 （Sympetrum 蜻蜓科 下的一個屬 ，主要生活在北半球 溫帶 地區，不見於澳大利亞 。
赤蜻屬的蜻蜓主要在夏末和秋季出沒，在草地覓食，在池沼附近繁衍。通常幼年體為金黃色，成年雄性和部份雌性會出現明亮的紅色部份。但也有黑赤蜻 這樣出現黑色的例外。[ 1]
該屬下的種包括：[ 2]
加拿大渥太華的一隻Sympetrum obtrusum
Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842) [ 3] Sympetrum anomalum Needham, 1930 Sympetrum arenicolor Jödicke, 1994 Sympetrum baccha (Selys, 1884) Sympetrum chaconi De Marmels, 1994 Sympetrum commixtum (Selys, 1884) Sympetrum cordulegaster (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861) [ 3] Sympetrum costiferum (Hagen, 1861) [ 3] Sympetrum croceolum (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum daliensis Zhu, 1999 Sympetrum danae (Sulzer, 1776) [ 4] [ 3] Sympetrum darwinianum Selys, 1883 Sympetrum depressiusculum (Selys, 1841) [ 5] Sympetrum dilatatum (Calvert, 1892) [ 6] Sympetrum durum Bartenev, 1916 Sympetrum eroticum (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum evanescens De Marmels, 1992 Sympetrum flaveolum (Linnaeus, 1758) [ 4] Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840) [ 4] [ 7] Sympetrum frequens (Selys, 1883) [ 8] Sympetrum gilvum (Selys, 1884) Sympetrum gracile Oguma, 1915 Sympetrum haematoneura Fraser, 1924 Sympetrum haritonovi Borisov, 1983 [ 9] Sympetrum himalayanum Navás, 1934 Sympetrum hypomelas (Selys, 1884) Sympetrum illotum (Hagen, 1861) [ 3] Sympetrum imitans Selys, 1886 Sympetrum infuscatum (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum internum Montgomery, 1943 [ 3] Sympetrum kunckeli (Selys, 1884) Sympetrum maculatum Oguma, 1922 Sympetrum madidum (Hagen, 1861) [ 3] Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841) [ 5] Sympetrum nigrifemur (Selys, 1884) [ 10] Sympetrum nigrocreatum Calvert, 1920 [ 11] Sympetrum nomurai Asahina, 1997 Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1861) [ 3] Sympetrum orientale (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum pallipes (Hagen, 1874) [ 3] Sympetrum paramo De Marmels, 2001 Sympetrum parvulum (Bartenev, 1912) Sympetrum pedemontanum (Müller, 1766) [ 4] Sympetrum risi Bartenev, 1914 Sympetrum roraimae De Marmels, 1988 Sympetrum rubicundulum (Say, 1840) [ 3] Sympetrum ruptum Needham, 1930 Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764) [ 4] Sympetrum semicinctum (Say, 1840) [ 3] Sympetrum signiferum Cannings & Garrison, 1991 Sympetrum sinaiticum Dumont, 1977 [ 5] Sympetrum speciosum Oguma, 1915 Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840) [ 4] Sympetrum tibiale (Ris, 1897) Sympetrum uniforme (Selys, 1883) Sympetrum verum Bartenev, 1916 Sympetrum vicinum (Hagen, 1861) [ 12] [ 3] Sympetrum villosum Ris, 1911 Sympetrum vulgatum (Linnaeus, 1758) [ 4] [ 5] Sympetrum xiaoi Han & Zhu, 1997
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