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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Emeralds (Corduliidae) » Baskettails (Epitheca) » Spiny Baskettail (Epitheca spinigera)
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Baskettail? - Epitheca spinigera - female
Copyright © 2016 Phil Nosler

Baskettail? - Epitheca spinigera - Female
Upper Table Rock, Jackson County, Oregon, USA
April 28, 2014
I thought this might be a baskettail, but then I noticed that the eye color on baskettails is blue, and not brown. Does anyone know what kind of dragonfly this is?

Thanks,
Phil
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Contributed by Phil Nosler on 1 July, 2016 - 10:08pm
Last updated 7 September, 2016 - 5:04pm

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Baskettail
Thanks for all of your help! Do you recommend I move this picture to the Spiny Baskettail page?
… Phil Nosler, 6 July, 2016 - 8:45pm login or register to post comments

Phil, I think your baskettail
Phil, I think your baskettail is a female, either Beaverpond Baskettail or Spiny Baskettail. Female baskettails eyes typically don't show the blue of the males. It's hard to say which species without other angles showing the appendages or the top of the face better.
… Jim Burns, 5 July, 2016 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Baskettail
This is an immature female. I think this is a Spiny baskettail (Epitheca spinigera). The black fringe behind the eyes seems to be a good criteria to distinguish this specie from Beaverpond baskettail (Epitheca canis). E. canis fringes are yellow. This is a criteria I use frequently while atlassing dragonflies in my area.
… Alain Cote, 6 July, 2016 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
female E. spinigera
… Larry de March, 7 September, 2016 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

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