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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Emeralds (Corduliidae) » Baskettails (Epitheca) » Prince Baskettail (Epitheca princeps)

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Epitheca princeps? - Epitheca princeps

Tweed, Hastings, Ontario, Canada
June 9, 2014

Collected at Drag Lake, about 7.25 km west of Tweed.
Habitat is rock (calcerous) bottomed, bordered by marshes.

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Contributed by Joe Bartok on 11 June, 2014 - 4:55am
Last updated 14 June, 2014 - 6:42pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… v belov, 14 June, 2014 - 6:42pm

Epitheca

if you still have the exuvia take off the palps and count the hairs on the curved edge. E. princeps has 4.

see here:

… Larry de March, 11 June, 2014 - 9:46am

Epitheca princeps

The 4 setae on the palps don't make it E. princeps, but the field of setae on the prementum does.

… J. H. Epler, 14 June, 2014 - 8:26am

Thanks

Beautiful macros, I was studying these very pictures before uploading mine, didn't understand it was the setae that were important.

The palp look like it has four nubs where there were hairs, I can see them with a loupe but don't think my camera can manage an image. There are three other specimens, I'll examine those as well.

… Joe Bartok, 11 June, 2014 - 2:59pm

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