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Gomphus spicatus ?
Copyright © 2016 JerryMcCormick

Gomphus spicatus ?
Buhl, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA
June 9, 2016
The entire time I was handling this specimen it apparently continued to chew on a fly it had caught! That may be the reason it was easy to catch in the first place.

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Gomphus spicatus ? Gomphus spicatus ? Gomphus spicatus ?
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Contributed by JerryMcCormick on 9 June, 2016 - 6:33pm
Last updated 5 May, 2021 - 8:12pm

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Gomphus
You are in the range of G. spicatus and G.lividus. Females can be told apart by the shape of the occiput which isn't large enough or clear enough in your image for me to want to say which it is. If you'd turned it over and shot the subgenital plate you could have i.d.'d it easily :-)
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