ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies.
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- Soaring Systematics: An Evaluation of Biogeography and Flight Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) Using Phylogenomics.Systematic biology · 2026Article
- Span Efficiency of Flying Animals.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Additively Manufactured Dragonfly-Inspired Wings for Bio-Faithful Flapping MAV Development.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Retrospection of Research on Dragonfly and Damselfly (Odonata) During Past Fifty Years: A Bibliometric Review.Insects · 2025Review
- Corrugation at the Trailing Edge Enhances the Aerodynamic Performance of a Three-Dimensional Wing During Gliding Flight.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Numerical Investigation on the Aerodynamic Benefits of Corrugated Wing in Dragonfly-like Hovering Flapping Wing.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reciprocal actuation core and modular robotic limbs for flying, swimming and running.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- The Effect of Hindwing Trajectories on Wake-Wing Interactions in the Configuration of Two Flapping Wings in Tandem.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A straightforward protocol to sample morphological traits of dragonflies and damselflies in the field.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Numerical Simulation of the Advantages of the Figure-Eight Flapping Motion of an Insect on Aerodynamics under Low Reynolds Number Conditions.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Year at the Forefront of Gliding Locomotion.Biology open · 2023Review
- Amazonian Odonata Trait Bank.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Nonuniform structural properties of wings confer sensing advantages.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Preattentive facilitation of target trajectories in a dragonfly visual neuron.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Characterization of Wingbeat Frequency of Different Taxa of Migratory Insects in Northeast Asia.Insects · 2022Article
- Systematic characterization of wing mechanosensors that monitor airflow and wing deformations.iScience · 2022Article
- Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Micro-structures, nanomechanical properties and flight performance of three beetles with different folding ratios.Beilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2022Article
- Kinematics and Aerodynamics of Dragonflies (Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Dragonfly Neurons Selectively Attend to Targets Within Natural Scenes.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
This work is a synthesis of our current understanding of the mechanics, aerodynamics and visually mediated control of dragonfly and damselfly flight, with the addition of new experimental and computational data in several key areas. These are: the diversity of dragonfly wing morphologies, the aerodynamics of gliding flight, force generation in flapping flight, aerodynamic efficiency, comparative flight performance and pursuit strategies during predatory and territorial flights. New data are set in context by brief reviews covering anatomy at several scales, insect aerodynamics, neuromechanics and behaviour. We achieve a new perspective by means of a diverse range of techniques, including laser-line mapping of wing topographies, computational fluid dynamics simulations of finely detailed wing geometries, quantitative imaging using particle image velocimetry of on-wing and wake flow patterns, classical aerodynamic theory, photography in the field, infrared motion capture and multi-camera optical tracking of free flight trajectories in laboratory environments. Our comprehensive approach enables a novel synthesis of datasets and subfields that integrates many aspects of flight from the neurobiology of the compound eye, through the aeromechanical interface with the surrounding fluid, to flight performance under cruising and higher-energy behavioural modes.This article is part of the themed issue 'Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight'.
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