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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Pachydiplax » Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)
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male yellow sided skimmer? - Pachydiplax longipennis - male
Copyright © 2006 Matt Windsor

male yellow sided skimmer? - Pachydiplax longipennis - Male
nags head, Dare County, North Carolina, USA
July 1, 2006
Size: 2"
cruising a flooded maritime wet grassland
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Contributed by Matt Windsor on 1 July, 2006 - 11:33am
Last updated 7 July, 2007 - 1:15pm

Some field marks...
...that will be helpful to you. The male Yellow-sided Skimmer has a dark face and dark eyes...the Blue Dasher has a white face and green/blue eyes. The Yellow-sided Skimmer has the front of the thorax blue (dark in immature males--it gets "pruinose" or paler with age), and the sides cream with one dark stripe. The Blue Dasher's thorax has dark and light stripes on the front, and on the side several dark stripes on yellow.

Elizabeth
… E Moon, 3 July, 2006 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

Pachydiplax
I am afraid not. This is a Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis).

Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
World Birding Center
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park
joshua.rose_NO_SPAM@tpwd.state.tx.us
956-584-9156 x 236
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 1 July, 2006 - 12:56pm login or register to post comments

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