Wing images of Australian dragonflies

Brief description

A high-resolution photographic library of wings of Australian dragonflies and damselflies. Using specimens from the Australian Museum and other collections, images of wings of both male and female dragonflies and damselflies found in Australia are available for identification and research. Volume 1. Anisoptera (dragonflies) https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11845230 Volume 2. Zygoptera (damselflies) https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12579959 Both male and female wings of 318 species of dragonfly and damselfly wings, order Odonata, have been photographed with a specialist set-up using identified museum collection material. Each image shows a pair of right wings, a scale, an identifying taxonomic name and gender. Images hold extensive embedded metadata: 1. Metadata associated with the camera and photograph – embedded as Exif metadata 2. Metadata about the specimen – embedded as IPTC metadata o Registration number o Institution o Taxonomic name, according to the Australian Faunal Directory o Georeference, extracted from any occurrence data held by Atlas of Living Australia o Gender 3. Title and caption metadata – embedded as IPTC metadata. Caption information includes common name, taxonomic name, institution and specimen registration number. 4. Other general metadata to enable harvesting of images – embedded as keywords o Country o Taxonomy o Image descriptors