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Red or Striped Saddlebags Dragonfly? - Tramea calverti
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Red or Striped Saddlebags Dragonfly? - Tramea calverti
Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, USA
October 5, 2008

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Red or Striped Saddlebags Dragonfly? - Tramea calverti Red or Striped Saddlebags Dragonfly? - Tramea calverti Red or Striped Saddlebags Dragonfly? - Tramea calverti
Contributed by Sally King on 11 November, 2008 - 3:05pm
Last updated 11 November, 2008 - 6:08pm

Looks like a Striped Saddlebags
female. The colors and wing shapes are right, and the two broad white stripes on the thorax are not found in the other Saddlebags species.
… June Tveekrem, 11 November, 2008 - 5:52pm

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