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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae) » Gomphurus » Cocoa Clubtail (Gomphurus hybridus)
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Dragonfly having lunch. - Gomphurus hybridus
Copyright © 2007 PHOTOMAMA4

Dragonfly having lunch. - Gomphurus hybridus
Coldwater, Tate County, Mississippi, USA
December 31, 1969
Size: ???
I would really like to know what this dragonfly is eating. I have had people tell me it is a mosquito, a mayfly, and even another dragonfly. If you can figure it out PLEASE e-mail me at ARS_Photography@comcast.net.
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Contributed by PHOTOMAMA4 on 6 May, 2007 - 10:25pm
Last updated 30 July, 2007 - 10:08pm

Moved
Moved from Clubtails.
… john and jane balaban, 30 July, 2007 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

Cocoa Clubtail
This is a male Cocoa Clubtail (Gomphus (Gomphurus) hybridus).
… Nick Block, 21 July, 2007 - 4:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dragonflies.
… john and jane balaban, 2 June, 2007 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… Jeff Hollenbeck, 22 May, 2007 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

Clubtail
This looks suspiciously like a brown form of Gomphus vastus, the Cobra Clubtail. The brown form is supposed to stick to the TX area but who knows. I can't make it any other male for MS. And, no, that is not a mayfly.
… Herschel Raney, 8 May, 2007 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

Clubtail
The dragonfly, by the way, is one of the Clubtails. Keep posting, as we don't get many photos of insects in Mississippi or nearby states!
… Stephen_WV, 7 May, 2007 - 4:15am login or register to post comments

Not a mayfly
Those long structures seem to come from the front, not the back. I would guess one of the long-horned Orthoptera, Suborder Ensifera, based on the assumption that those are antennae. Ensifera are the only group I can think of with antennae twice the body length.

Of course, I'm no expert so I could easily be way off.
… Chuck Entz, 6 May, 2007 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

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