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Plathemis lydia.
Common Whitetail (female). Female common whitetails are often confused with the twelve-spotted skimmer. The common whitetail females have a short, stout abdomen with several oblique dorsolateral white or pale yellow markings against a brown ground color. Each wing has three black evenly spaced blotches. The female has a solid stripe down the side of the longer, more slender abdomen. Adults feed on flying insects. A summer species. Found in the 48 United States and south into Mexico and into the Canadian provinces.
Spotted on a path at Kinder Farm Park, Millersville, Maryland
Thank you again ForestDragon for this correction to a Common Whitetail female dragonfly.
Spotted on Jul 4, 2014
Submitted on Jul 6, 2014
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