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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Emeralds (Corduliidae) » Striped Emeralds (Somatochlora) » Incurvate Emerald (Somatochlora incurvata)
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Is this an American emerald, male ? - Somatochlora incurvata
Copyright © 2013 Henry Burton

Is this an American emerald, male ? - Somatochlora incurvata
Alger County, Michigan, USA
August 25, 2012

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Is this an American emerald, male ? - Somatochlora incurvata Is this an American emerald, male ? - Somatochlora incurvata Is this an American emerald, male ? - Somatochlora incurvata
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Contributed by Henry Burton on 28 May, 2013 - 11:22am
Last updated 28 December, 2013 - 12:45pm

Moved
Moved from Emeralds.
… Ben Coulter, 28 December, 2013 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Somatochlora incurvata
Nice find!
… Ben Coulter, 28 December, 2013 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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Somatochlora incurvata ?
S. incurvata seems the most likely species to me as well. Seeing the side of the thorax may have helped with identification but that isn't always possible.
… DeeDee, 28 May, 2013 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

Somatochlora
perhaps Kennedy's. Can you provide a blow-up of the cerci?
… Larry de March, 28 May, 2013 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
Somatochlora incurvata
is what I'm leaning towards but I have no experience with that species
… Larry de March, 28 May, 2013 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

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