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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Pennants (Celithemis) » Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina)
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Halloween Pennant? - Celithemis eponina - male
Copyright © 2009 Keith Roragen

Halloween Pennant? - Celithemis eponina - Male
Fontenelle Forest, Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska, USA
August 10, 2009
This beauty posed for me on a dried flower head. I didn't even have to move the camera. I just took a shot and it would move, giving me a new angle. Can anyone confirm ID. I really don't know my dragonflies. Also, is there anyway to determine gender?

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Halloween Pennant? - Celithemis eponina - male Halloween Pennant? - Celithemis eponina - male
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Contributed by Keith Roragen on 10 August, 2009 - 7:26pm
Last updated 10 August, 2009 - 9:17pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Keith Roragen, 10 August, 2009 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

Yes, Celithemis eponina
an ol' timer! and the claspers on the end of the abdomen say - male.
… john and jane balaban, 10 August, 2009 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you..
very much.
… Keith Roragen, 10 August, 2009 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Halloween Pennant.
… Keith Roragen, 10 August, 2009 - 7:26pm login or register to post comments

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