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Striped Saddlebags in Georgia? - Tramea carolina - female
Copyright © 2008 Wayne Hughes

Striped Saddlebags in Georgia? - Tramea carolina - Female
Wolfskin District, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, USA
May 4, 2008
Size: 8 cm
Striped saddlebags, Tramea calverti, is what DougT at Gossamer Tapestry suggests. Unusual but not unknown to find it in Georgia. Several were hunting about a sunny clearing about 50 feet above Goulding Creek in southwest Oglethorpe County, which is in the Piedmont region of northeast Georgia.

Doug says female, so I'll check that.

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Striped Saddlebags in Georgia? - Tramea carolina - female Striped Saddlebags in Georgia? - Tramea carolina - female
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Contributed by Wayne Hughes on 5 May, 2008 - 8:54am
Last updated 21 May, 2008 - 4:13pm

Thanks
Much appreciated attention to what is still at least a first for me! I was pleased that I at least got the genus right ;-)
… Wayne Hughes, 6 May, 2008 - 5:30am login or register to post comments

Carolina
T. carolina. Extensive red patch, minimal clear sole, and more black on top of S8-9 than on Red.
… Cliff Bernzweig, 6 May, 2008 - 1:13am login or register to post comments

not striped
I don't see any stripes and there appears to be too much red in the wings. Check out Carolina (T. carolina) and Red (T. onusta). Leaning towards Red but I haven't double-checked that the marks I'm thinking of are the right ones.
… Jason Forbes, 5 May, 2008 - 10:20am login or register to post comments

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