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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae) » Pond Clubtails (Arigomphus) » Unicorn Clubtail (Arigomphus villosipes)
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Arigomphus villosipes - male
Copyright © 2016 Zane Roskoph

Arigomphus villosipes - Male
Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
June 20, 2016
Size: ~2 inches
Found this perched on the banks of Hopkins' Pond in Haddonfield. Thought it was a sanddragon when I saw it, but when I reviewed my photos, the yellow S10 and black pattern on a yellow thorax ruled that out. Looks like either a male unicorn or lilypad clubtail to me, but I was torn as to which. According to Barlow, Golden, and Bangma (2009), neither species has been recorded in Camden County before, though the unicorn does range closer than the lilypad.
Update:
ID'ed by Allen Barlow as unicorn clubtail.

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Contributed by Zane Roskoph on 21 July, 2016 - 12:05pm
Last updated 9 December, 2016 - 9:29am

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