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Cherry-faced Meadowhawk (Sympetrum internum)
Photo#86387
Copyright © 2006
Steve Nanz
Sympetrum Sp -
Sympetrum internum
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Monhegan Island, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
September 1, 2006
If I understand the hamules photos at Bob Barber's
Problematical Southern New Jersey Sympetrum Specimens
web page, I think it's a Ruby Meadowhawk.
This image was cropped from photo #86386.
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Contributed by
Steve Nanz
on 9 November, 2006 - 4:38am
Last updated 3 November, 2009 - 3:24am
Moved
Moved from
Meadowhawks
.
I am putting this in Sympetrum internum for now. I think S. rubicundulum and S. obtrusum can be eliminated by the shape of the hamule and from what I've gathered online S. janeae and S. internum cannot be separated at this point and may in fact be one species.
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Steve Nanz
, 14 November, 2007 - 4:41am
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Tough one
I think you can safely eliminate obtrusum from this photo, but maybe not janae or internum.
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Cliff Bernzweig
, 12 November, 2006 - 11:41pm
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