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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Meadowhawks (Sympetrum) » Striped Meadowhawk (Sympetrum pallipes)
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Dragonfly wants to know who he is. - Sympetrum pallipes
Copyright © 2004 Kildale

Dragonfly wants to know who he is. - Sympetrum pallipes
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
August 28, 2004
I would like to know as well. I have had a yellow one ID'd, this may be the Male.
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Contributed by Kildale on 31 August, 2004 - 12:34am

You're quite right about the
You're quite right about the species, it is Symetrum pallipes, but the sex is female.

Andy Smith
Victoria, BC
… atsmith, 27 October, 2004 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

more pics?
Wow! This is a stumper! Do you have any other photos from another angle? If so would you paste them on ID Request? We can't decide if we're looking at yellow stripes on the thorax or a solid yellow thorax with wing shadows spread over it, etc. The first would push us in the direction of Sympetrum pallipes, but....
… john and jane balaban, 4 September, 2004 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Dragonfly
I have a few shots of it but don't think the others will help much. Will put a top view in but haven't any that show what you want.
… Kildale, 4 September, 2004 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

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