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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Spreadwings (Lestidae)
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Blue-eyed Dragonfly
Copyright © 2014 Johnny55

Blue-eyed Dragonfly
Alfred, Alfred, Ontario, Canada
September 3, 2014
Size: medium
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Contributed by Johnny55 on 3 September, 2014 - 10:34am

Slender spreadwing
if the white veins around the wing tips aren't a photographic artifact, and they don't appear to be.
… Larry de March, 3 September, 2014 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Tony Leukering, 3 September, 2014 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

This is...
a spreadwing, which is a damselfly, not a dragonfly. Damsels typically have their eyes on the sides of the head, while most dragons have the eyes meet in the middle of the head (clubtails are somewhat different). On spreadwings, it's most efficacious to get topside pix of the terminal appendages on males, as this makes ID fairly straightforward. That said, this looks like it might be a Lyre-tipped Spreadwing.
… Tony Leukering, 3 September, 2014 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

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