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Allegheny River Cruiser (Macromia alleghaniensis)
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Copyright © 2011
Yurika Alexander
Georgia River Cruiser? -
Macromia alleghaniensis
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Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
June 8, 2011
Size: 35mm?
Macromia illinoiensis georgina
?
Looks like this one
http://www.njodes.com/Speciesaccts/cruisers/crui-geor.asp
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Contributed by
Yurika Alexander
on 8 June, 2011 - 2:39pm
Last updated 10 July, 2011 - 6:12pm
Moved
Moved from
Macromia
.
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Ben Coulter
, 10 July, 2011 - 6:12pm
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Thank you, Ben!
There is no
Macromia alleghaniensis
in this checklist
http://www.njodes.com/checklists/Camden.pdf
. Is that OK?
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Yurika Alexander
, 10 July, 2011 - 7:31pm
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Yeah
It appears it may be a Camden County record. You could try submitting it to
Odonata Central
. You have to register at the site first, but it is easy to do. Bear in mind records sometimes get vetted as unconfirmed due to a lack of sufficient diagnostic photographs. But it's worth a shot. Compare the submitted record of
alleghaniensis
from New Jersey to your photo.
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Ben Coulter
, 10 July, 2011 - 9:38pm
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Moved
Moved from
Dragonflies
.
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Ben Coulter
, 10 June, 2011 - 6:20pm
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Perhaps
Do you have a lateral view?
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Ben Coulter
, 10 June, 2011 - 1:28am
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Unfortunately...
I don't. It was on high branch (and I'm short!) and I only could take picture from this angle...
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Yurika Alexander
, 10 June, 2011 - 10:04am
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Allegheny v. Georgia
I'm not sure that you can rule out
Macromia alleghaniensis
from just this view.
M. i. georgina
has half-length antehumeral stripes, which
alleghaniensis
should essentially lack. Georgia also averages more yellow, with larger abdominal spots, but differs in some of the fine details. The keel on the middle tibia of the male is 14-20% of total length on
alleghaniensis
and 25-50% on
georgina
(Dunkle 2000). The small size of the abdominal spotting and the interrupted band on S2 makes me lean more towards an Allegheny, but almost all of the diagnostic marks you would need to confirm without capture require a lateral view. I'll mull this over and check back.
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Ben Coulter
, 10 June, 2011 - 6:06pm
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