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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Libellula » Needham's Skimmer (Libellula needhami)
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Needham's Skimmer - Libellula needhami - male
Copyright © 2007 Bill Brower

Needham's Skimmer - Libellula needhami - Male
Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida, USA
June 7, 2007
Size: 3"
None for Florida in June? We can fix that.

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Needham's Skimmer - Libellula needhami - male Needham's Skimmer - Libellula needhami - male Needham's Skimmer - Libellula needhami - male
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Contributed by Bill Brower on 18 June, 2007 - 2:25pm
Last updated 18 June, 2007 - 3:54pm

Moved
Moved from Golden-winged Skimmer.
… john and jane balaban, 18 June, 2007 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

Actually we would say
this is L. needhami, instead. Check in the guide for the recent work by Gayle Strickland, and see if you don't agree. The inner half of the front vein on the front wing is black. The light color on the side of the thorax continues forward in a sort of nose shaped area. You chopped off the terminal appendages in this shot, but in the other we think we see male claspers.
… john and jane balaban, 18 June, 2007 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Hang on...
I have more pictures of this one...
… Bill Brower, 18 June, 2007 - 3:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah, yes!
Definitely male. We will edit them and move them to needhami. You may wish to edit the title to Needham's. Nice images - now go out and find us that auripennis! ;-)
… john and jane balaban, 18 June, 2007 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again
Your input is hugely valuable. I just take pictures.
Thanks again!
… Bill Brower, 18 June, 2007 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

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