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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Clubtails (Gomphidae)
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Unknown Odonate - possibly Sable Clubtail?
Copyright © 2014 Melise Edwards

Unknown Odonate - possibly Sable Clubtail?
Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA
June 19, 2014
This looks to be a Sable Clubtail but I am still an amateur. If anyone can confirm this ID or provide an alternative I would appreciate it!
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Contributed by Melise Edwards on 19 June, 2014 - 12:22pm
Last updated 5 May, 2021 - 8:15pm

Moved
Moved from Dragonflies.
… Greg W. Lasley, 21 October, 2014 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

Sable Clubtail looks like a s
Sable Clubtail looks like a strong probability, but I have very little experience with the species, so for present I'll move it to Gomphus and hope some folks with more experience with this species can confirm it.
… Greg W. Lasley, 21 October, 2014 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dragonflies.
… john and jane balaban, 12 July, 2014 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 12 July, 2014 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

cropping
away all the wasted space like it says in the photo guidelines will make identification easier. You are allowed 560 pixels on the long side of a photo.
… Larry de March, 19 June, 2014 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I will try to crop the image. The photo quality however isn't the best so I was afraid cropping it would make it too blurry and therefore harder to ID. I will upload another image and see how it looks.
… Melise Edwards, 19 June, 2014 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

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