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Band-winged Dragonlet

Erythrodiplax umbrata

Photo by Dan Doucette
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15.3107, -61.312

Field Notes

Description:

about 2.5" across

Habitat:

tropical forest

Notes:

One of the few dragonflies I spotted in Dominica. Being a small island and not close to any continents, there isn't a great diversity of insects on the island. Trust me, I looked!

Species ID Suggestions

Band-winged Dragonlet

Erythrodiplax umbrata

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Noah Citizen aka Olivier
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Comments (2)
Noah Citizen aka Olivier
My pleasure! quite hard to find, actually. I had to look at the guadeloupe (island to the north) biology/biodiversity records to find a trace of it.

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PublishedMay 25, 2013

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