Somatochlora viridiaenea is a species of dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. The species was described in 1858 by American entomologist Philip Reese Uhler based on a female specimen from Hokkaido, Japan. It has also been recorded on Honshu, in eastern Russia, and in Zhejiang, China. The Zhejiang specimen was described as a separate species , but a 2021 paper found that it should be treated as part of S. viridiaenea. Its closest relative is another East Asian species, S. clavata.
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