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Dragonfly Group #2 Skimmers, Cruisers, Baskettails, and Emeralds

 

Eastern Pondhawk (female)

Blue Dasher (male)

Eastern Pondhawk (male)

Common Whitetail (female)

Common Whitetail (juvenile male)

Blue Dasher (female)

Great Blue Skimmer (female)

Twelve-spotted Skimmer (male)

Common Whitetail (male)

Common Baskettail

Swift River Cruiser (fka Illinois River Cruiser)

Blue Corporal 

Prince Baskettail

Uhler's Sundragon (*endangered in Ohio)

Slaty Skimmer

Spangled Skimmer (male)

Widow Skimmer (male)

Widow Skimmer (female)

Spangled Skimmer (female)

Twelve-spotted Skimmer (female)

*Stream Cruiser and Uhler's Sundragon photographed at Hocking Hills (eastern Ohio). Yellow-sided Skimmers photographed in Pike County, Ohio. Double-ringed Pennant photographed in Jackson County, Ohio.

 

Stream Cruiser*

Clamp-tipped Emerald (female)

Great Blue Skimmer (male)

Slaty Skimmer 

Mocha Emerald (female)

Blue Corporal (female)

Swift Setwing

Royal River Cruiser

Four-spotted Skimmer

Clamp-tipped Emerald (male)

Yellow-sided Skimmer (male)*

Yellow-sided Skimmer (female)*

Double-ringed Pennant*

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