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title: "Wandering Glider"
description: "Pantala flavescens — Insetti e ragni. Pantala flavescens, the globe skimmer, globe wanderer or wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/wandering-glider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wandering Glider

> Pantala flavescens — Insetti e ragni. Pantala flavescens, the globe skimmer, globe wanderer or wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.

- Scientific name: *Pantala flavescens*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi)
- iNaturalist observations: 35663
- Wikidata: [Q1477924](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1477924)
- iNaturalist taxon: [108344](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/108344)

## Names

- en: Wandering Glider
- de: Wanderlibelle
- es: Libélula planeadora amarilla
- fr: Pantale globe-trotter
- nl: Wereldzwerver
- pl: Nomadka żółtawa

## Countries with the most observations

US (11770), IN (5359), TW (2091), CN (1375), MX (1210), HK (1204), JP (938), ZA (933), ID (762), CA (694), BR (662), TH (443)

## Summary

Pantala flavescens, the globe skimmer, globe wanderer or wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. This species and Pantala hymenaea, the "spot-winged glider", are the only members of the genus Pantala. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. It is considered to be the most widespread dragonfly on the planet, with good populations on every continent except Antarctica, although rare in Europe. Globe skimmers make an annual multigenerational journey of some 18,000 km (about 11,200 miles); to complete the migration, individual globe skimmers fly more than 6,000 km…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantala_flavescens

## Photo

![Wandering Glider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wandering-glider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/387748861

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wandering-glider?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).