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2. "NIPPONIA." NIPPONIA. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.
3. "The Dragonfly (Tombo) as a Motif in Japanese Art." Japanesque Accents. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.
4. Hearn, Lafcadio, and Brown and Company Little. A Japanese Miscellany. Boston: Little, Brown, 1901. Print.
5. Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology, 7th edition. Cengage Learning. p. 745.
6. Stryk, Lucien. Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter. New York, N.Y.: Grove, 1995. Print.
7. "Introduction to the Odonata". UCMP Berkeley. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
8. Berger 2004, pp. 5–6.
9. Bybee, Seth (1 May 2012). "Dragonflies and damselflies: Odonata". Featured Creatures. University of Florida: Entomology and Nematology. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
10. Mill, P. J.; Pickard, R. S. (1975). "Jet-propulsion in anisopteran dragonfly larvae". Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 97 (4): 329–338
11. Grzimeck, HC; Bernard (1975). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia Vol 22. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 348.
12. Berger 2004, pp. 10–11.
13. Berger 2004, p. 9
14. Berger 2004, pp. 32–34