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Common or Mantled Baskettail? - Epitheca semiaquea - female

Common or Mantled Baskettail? - Epitheca semiaquea - Female
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
April 11, 2006
It seems quite short for a dragonfly.....making me lean more toward the mantled.

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Common or Mantled Baskettail? - Epitheca semiaquea - female Common or Mantled Baskettail? - Epitheca semiaquea - female

Mantled
The wide and short bodied one. And those female termini won't help you much unfortunately.

 
Thanks
is there anything other than the wing markings and size that helps ID this one?

 
Baskets
I have netted and photographed many, many Commons looking for the other species. The body form, after you look at enough of them, is enough to separate the Mantled. But this is far more extensive dark markings than any Common I have ever taken. The most strongly marked Commons usually have, at most, a nicely defined triangle of dark.

 
Lynette,
I think the extensive wing markings, reaching the nodus and the rear edge of the wing, are what you go by. The markings on Common wouldn't be nearly as extensive.

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