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Golden-winged Skimmer Dragonfly

Libellula auripennis

Photo by James McNair
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Field Notes

Description:

The Golden-winged Skimmer male has an orange face, stigma, wing veins and abdomen. In females and young males, those areas are yellow and there are two stripes on each side of the thorax. They perch on weed tips at water's edge

http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Odonata/liau.html

Habitat:

Wetlands

Reference Links:

Libellula auripennis - Golden-winged Skimmer

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