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Checkered Setwing

Dythemis fugax

Photo by Brian38
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Field Notes

Description:

The checkered setwing has a reddish brown, black, and white pattern with dark brown wing patches and dark veins. Males have red faces and eyes over red and grey. The thorax is red-brown with black markings and pale grey on the lower sides. The male abdomen is black with beige streaks at the base and a pair of longer spots on segment seven. The female has a tan face with red eyes over blue-grey. The female thorax has many brown stripes. The abdomen is black with white markings at the bases of segments two through seven, and a black at the tip of the tail. Female wings are marked the same as the male, and have dark, narrow tips.

Habitat:

Spotted next to a pond.

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