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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae) » Phanogomphus » Dusky Clubtail (Phanogomphus spicatus)
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Clubtail cerci - Phanogomphus spicatus
Copyright © 2005 Joel Kits

Clubtail cerci - Phanogomphus spicatus
Sauble Falls Provincial Park, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
May 25, 2005
A couple of angles of the terminal appendages of this specimen. Will these help with the ID?

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Clubtail - Phanogomphus spicatus Clubtail cerci - Phanogomphus spicatus
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Contributed by Joel Kits on 28 May, 2005 - 7:13pm
Last updated 2 August, 2007 - 6:26pm

Moved
Moved from Clubtails.
… john and jane balaban, 2 August, 2007 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

Dusky
I think this is a male Dusky Clubtail b/c of the combination of a pale dorsal mark on S8, virtually unclubbed appearance, dull yellow-orange markings laterally on club, and ventral teeth on the cerci. Harpoon should not have a prominent yellow dorsal spot on S8.
… Nick Block, 31 July, 2007 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah
I think you are right.
… Cliff Bernzweig, 1 August, 2007 - 11:06pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Harpoon
Gomphus descriptus.
… Cliff Bernzweig, 21 August, 2006 - 3:23am login or register to post comments

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