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Common Whitetail
Plathemis (formerly Libellula) lydia
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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