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Golden-winged Skimmer Dragonfly

Libellula auripennis

Description:

The Golden-winged Skimmer male has an orange face, stigma, wing veins and abdomen. In females and young males, those areas are yellow and there are two stripes on each side of the thorax. They perch on weed tips at water's edge http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomolog...

Habitat:

Wetlands

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James McNair
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James McNair

Florida, USA

Spotted on Aug 30, 2014
Submitted on Sep 2, 2014

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