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Common Whitetail

Plathemis (formerly Libellula) lydia

Photo by joanbstanley
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33.1528, -97.0456

Field Notes

Description:

male: mature has broad gleaming white pruinose abdomen with wings having a dark band for 1/3 width extending from just before the nodus towards tip, small black basal bar surrounded by a small white area; immature with abdomen like female's but with wing markings like a mature male - it then develops thin bluish white pruinosity; thorax top white only near wings; face dark.

Habitat:

City retention pond.

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