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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Corporals (Ladona) » Blue Corporal (Ladona deplanata)
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DragonflyTBID01022015_2934.jpg - Ladona deplanata - female
Copyright © 2015 Rich

DragonflyTBID01022015_2934.jpg - Ladona deplanata - Female
Sweetbay Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
January 2, 2015
Found an abundance of these dragonflys mostly on the sunny side of the pine trees. I've got an old dragonfly book and I found this to be Libellula exuda deplanata in it. Doing the search in BG, it lead me to Chalk fronted corporal Ladona julia - if I followed it correctly.
Thanks for your help!
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Contributed by Rich on 5 February, 2015 - 2:14pm
Last updated 6 February, 2015 - 6:58am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 6 February, 2015 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

Not sure which of our suggestions is right
We only link together images of the same individual, so these need to be unlinked. We will move them to the correct species page and unlink them there. The first two can always be linked if they are indeed of the same individual.
… john and jane balaban, 6 February, 2015 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

These are clearly not all images of the same individual
Are the first two images of the same individual or do these represent three different individuals?
… john and jane balaban, 5 February, 2015 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

 
That's right
As I understand now, they're same species and were found together. The head shot is the same female.
… Rich, 6 February, 2015 - 6:26am login or register to post comments

Blue Corporal
Corporal is correct, but this is Blue Corporal, Ladona deplanata: http://bugguide.net/node/view/712382. Chalk-fronted would be way out of range.
… Ben Kolstad, 5 February, 2015 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Okay
Then Libellula exusta deplanata, which I found in Sidney Dunkle's book Dragonflies of the Florida Peninsula, Bermuda and the Bahamas and looks very much like my pics - does that fit into this in anyway?

Thanks
… Rich, 5 February, 2015 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, indeed!
The taxonomy in Dunkle is old, that's all. Same species. But even in Dunkle you can see where it was headed: he notes that some consider the New England form to be a different species. And now, they are listed as different species indeed.
… Ben Kolstad, 5 February, 2015 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
For the further explanation - I got it!
… Rich, 6 February, 2015 - 6:27am login or register to post comments

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