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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Saddlebags (Tramea) » Black Saddlebags (Tramea lacerata)
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Black Saddlebags - Tramea lacerata - male
Copyright © 2008 Hannah Nendick-Mason

Black Saddlebags - Tramea lacerata - Male
Cherry Beach Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 13, 2008
Size: ~45mm head to tail
Please correct me if I have the wrong identification - ID made by comparing images in the guide. I feel very lucky to have found this one posing for me next to Lake Ontario, having read they rarely perch.

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Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 13 July, 2008 - 4:12pm

The claspers at the end of the abdomen
certainly identify this as a male. It may very well be a young adult male, but it is definitely male. Here is a female for comparison
… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2011 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

We would agree with your ID
and beautiful images too, Hannah!
… john and jane balaban, 13 July, 2008 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

 
age/sex?
Why isn't this a female or immature?
… Robert A. Hamilton, 20 September, 2011 - 2:40am login or register to post comments

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