Claim: Rhyothemis princeps is a medium-sized dragonfly only found in Australia and New Guinea, the world's second-largest island located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Evidence: It is a medium-sized dragonfly (wingspan 70mm, length 40mm) that inhabits a variety of freshwater lakes, ponds, and swamps. Rhyothemis princeps is found in Australia and New Guinea only. New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island and, with an area of 785,753 km (303,381 sq mi), the largest island wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, it is separated by the 150-kilometre (81 nmi; 93 mi) wide Torres Strait from the Australian continent.