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Common Whitetail female - Plathemis lydia - female
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Common Whitetail female - Plathemis lydia - Female
Swamp White Oak Preserve, Nichols, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
June 12, 2009
Size: ~5 cm
Several of these dragonflies were flying across grassy field interspersed with trees in bottomland, occasionally alighting on a log.
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Contributed by John Pearson on 12 June, 2009 - 11:25pm
Last updated 13 June, 2009 - 7:38am

Common Whitetail
This is a common whitetail- Plathemis lydia.
… Minray Yang, 12 June, 2009 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for both IDs
Here is a link to the male:
… John Pearson, 13 June, 2009 - 7:41am login or register to post comments

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