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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Spreadwings (Lestidae) » Lestes » Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus)
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Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus
Copyright © 2007 brian flaig

Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus
Northwest, Minnesota, USA
July 2, 2007
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Contributed by brian flaig on 3 July, 2007 - 11:37am
Last updated 2 December, 2007 - 9:09pm

Moved
Moved from Lestes.
… john and jane balaban, 2 December, 2007 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spreadwings.
… john and jane balaban, 1 December, 2007 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

Common or Sweetflag
I think this view is good enough to say either Common/Northern (disjunctus) or Sweetflag (forcipatus). Can't quite make out enough detail to to separate them, but I'd lean towards disjunctus.
… Jason Forbes, 3 July, 2007 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Northern Spreadwing,
Lestes disjunctus, based on the shape of the appendages. Also, I'm not sure that Sweetflag Spreadwing is found in northwestern Minnesota. It is in northeastern Minnesota, but western Minnesota has different habitat.
… June Tveekrem, 3 July, 2007 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

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