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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae) » Octogomphus » Grappletail (Octogomphus specularis)
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Recently emerged Grappletail 1 - Octogomphus specularis - male
Copyright © 2015 Aaron Schusteff

Recently emerged Grappletail 1 - Octogomphus specularis - Male
Butano State Park, San Mateo County, California, USA
May 17, 2015
See remarks under 1st image of series.

I'm curious about the two small, yellow, bulging-hemisphical appendages behind the hind-wing bases...looking kind of like "dragonfly halteres"!...except I guess they're attached to the 1st abdominal segment rather than the thorax. I've never noticed such structures on an odonate before...they can also be seen on the other male that was found nearby at the same time:

 

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 27 November, 2015 - 4:04pm

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