but is sometimes used to mean all Odonata. Odonata enthusiasts avoid ambiguity by using the term true dragonfly, or simply anisopteran, when they mean just the Anisoptera. An alternative term warriorfly has been proposed.

External morphology

Size

The largest living odonate is the giant Central American helicopter damselfly Megaloprepus coerulatus (Zygoptera: Pseudostigmatidae) with a wing span of . The heaviest living odonates

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