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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Dragonlets (Erythrodiplax) » Seaside Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax berenice)
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Florida Dragonfly - Erythrodiplax berenice
Copyright © 2006 Chantal Sakay

Florida Dragonfly - Erythrodiplax berenice
Big Cypress Bend, Collier County, Florida, USA
May 10, 2006
Can someone please help to identify this dragonfly? Thanks very much.
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Contributed by Ann C. Pettigrew on 21 May, 2006 - 1:35pm
Last updated 10 January, 2012 - 6:10pm

Erythrodiplax?
I am not 100% certain but I think this is a not-quite-mature male Seaside Dragonlet, Erythrodiplax berenice. Mature males are entirely dark, slaty blue-gray. Females and younger males have orange barring, as is visible lower on the sides of this individual, and have bicolored eyes like this one.

Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
World Birding Center
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park
joshua.rose_NO_SPAM@tpwd.state.tx.us
956-584-9156 x 236
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 21 May, 2006 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Seaside Dragonfly
Thank you very much for your help, Joshua. I appreciate it. I would have replied sooner but I just got the notice today that you and Tony Thomas had looked at the photo for me. Ann
… Ann C. Pettigrew, 16 July, 2006 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
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