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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae) » Phanogomphus » Lancet Clubtail (Phanogomphus exilis)
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how about this one? another clubtail. - Phanogomphus exilis
Copyright © 2012 Rebecca Deatsman

how about this one? another clubtail. - Phanogomphus exilis
Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA
June 12, 2012
This is not the same individual as the one in the photo I posted earlier today, and this is (I think) a better photo. Nothing in my field guide quite matches that yellow tip of the abdomen. So which clubtail is this?
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Contributed by Rebecca Deatsman on 12 June, 2012 - 5:03pm
Last updated 12 June, 2012 - 8:50pm

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… Rebecca Deatsman, 12 June, 2012 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

Female
Lancet Clubtail
… Tony Leukering, 12 June, 2012 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

 
thank you!
Aha - that explains it. My field guide only had a photo for the male! Thanks.
… Rebecca Deatsman, 12 June, 2012 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

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