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Seaside Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax berenice)
Photo#53208
Copyright © 2006 Chantal Sakay
Florida Dragonfly -
Erythrodiplax berenice
Big Cypress Bend, Big Cypress County, Florida, USA
May 10, 2006
Can someone please help to identify this dragonfly? Thanks very much.
Contributed by
Ann C. Pettigrew
on 21 May, 2006 - 1:35pm
Last updated 16 July, 2006 - 9:31pm
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
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Joshua Stuart Rose
, 21 May, 2006 - 4:15pm
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
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Ann C. Pettigrew
, 16 July, 2006 - 10:23pm
moved to
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Tony-2
, 16 July, 2006 - 9:30pm
