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Common Whitetail
Plathemis lydia
33.0852, -97.0686
Field Notes
Description:
Males and females have different wing patterns:
Immature males have the same body pattern as females but the same wing pattern as mature males:
'tween' males have abdomens that are beginning to turn blue, but the adolescent body pattern still shows through the blue:
Mature males have a short, stout abdomen that is completely chalky blue-white covering the adolescent pattern:
Females have a short, stout abdomen with several oblique dorsolateral white or pale yellow markings against a brown ground color; each wing has three black evenly-spaced blotches:
Habitat:
Trickle trough in greenbelt running through housing development.
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