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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Spreadwings (Lestidae) » Lestes » Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus)
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Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus - female
Copyright © 2006 brian flaig

Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus - Female
Northwest, Minnesota, USA
July 5, 2005

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Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus - female Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus - female Spreadwing - Lestes disjunctus - female
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Contributed by brian flaig on 19 February, 2006 - 11:45am
Last updated 17 June, 2006 - 4:03pm

Female Lestes, dorsal view, that's gonna be tough!
If you have any male images from the same place and time, that would help, or a lateral view of the females. It doesn't look metallic green and it's early July in NW Minnesota, so we're tempted by L. unguiculatus. It's dark enough where we would like to have said L. disjunctus, but that date seems a little too early for them. Either way, it gives you a place to continue your search for an ID.
… john and jane balaban, 19 February, 2006 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

 
I've included a couple of mor
I've included a couple of more images from a (slightly) different angle. No males alas was I able to photograph.
… brian flaig, 19 February, 2006 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Oops
Don't you hate it when you mess up. Sorry. I'm going to tag two more images of the first one (43266). 43297 and 42398 are from the same image just different crops of each end.
… brian flaig, 19 February, 2006 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

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