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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Darners (Aeshnidae) » Mosaic Darners (Aeshna) » Black-tipped Darner (Aeshna tuberculifera)
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mosaic darner - Aeshna tuberculifera
Copyright © 2010 Molly Jacobson

mosaic darner - Aeshna tuberculifera
Ponemah Bog, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
August 29, 2010
Finally caught one! Many of these circle a pond in a bog. Though the bog was pretty dry because of a huge heat wave. I have plenty more views if needed.

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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 1 September, 2010 - 9:20am
Last updated 2 September, 2010 - 7:18am

Moved
Moved from Darners.
… Molly Jacobson, 2 September, 2010 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

Black-tipped?
My field guide for Massachusetts(1) gives Aeshna tuberculifera as the most likely species based in part on the small "flag" on the top of the straight front stripe on the side of the thorax. A. umbrosa would be next but that tends to have prominent dark margins around the stripes. They can also be distinguished by where females oviposit, and the book notes that A. tuberculifera males fly higher than most darners.
… John F. Carr, 1 September, 2010 - 7:52pm login or register to post comments

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