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Mantled Baskettail? - Libellula luctuosa - female
Copyright © 2006 Steve Scott

Mantled Baskettail? - Libellula luctuosa - Female
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
June 18, 2006

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Mantled Baskettail? - Libellula luctuosa - female Mantled Baskettail? - Libellula luctuosa - female
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 29 June, 2006 - 11:29pm
Last updated 3 July, 2006 - 12:06am

Widow Skimmer
Looks like a female Widow Skimmer.
See: http://bugguide.net/node/view/23169
… Kaylee Skylyn, 30 June, 2006 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

Widow
This is a female/immature Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa).

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, 30 June, 2006 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
to both of you for the correction. She was a beauty by any name.
… Steve Scott, 30 June, 2006 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

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