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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Narrow-winged Damselflies (Coenagrionidae) » Forktails (Ischnura) » Rambur's Forktail (Ischnura ramburii)
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Spreadwing Damselfly? - Ischnura ramburii
Copyright © 2018 Jim Moore1

Spreadwing Damselfly? - Ischnura ramburii
Chesapeake Bay environmental center, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, USA
June 16, 2018
Photographed in late morning in a brackish marsh. There were many Seaside Dragonlets and a few Big Bluets in the same vicinity. Hoping to get to species if possible of course.
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Contributed by Jim Moore1 on 17 June, 2018 - 6:28pm
Last updated 11 August, 2018 - 10:08am

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.
… Ken Allison, 11 August, 2018 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

You can exclude the Eastern
I verticalis doesn't have this color pattern.
… john and jane balaban, 20 June, 2018 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

Looks like an olive form female
of Ischnura ramburii
… john and jane balaban, 17 June, 2018 - 8:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks. I guess the wing on
Thanks. I guess one of the wings on its left is just askew or damaged. I suppose there is no way to exclude Eastern Forktail from the photo which is why your comment is somewhat tentative.
… Jim Moore1, 20 June, 2018 - 8:06am login or register to post comments

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