[Odonata-l] Plathemis lydia: 2 other specimens to identify ???

[Erland R. Nielsen]

Michel
Yes, you got a male and a female Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail), I think 
it's decided years ago not to place this species and it's "sister" Desert 
Whitetail (Plathemis subomata) in the Libellula genus.

Btw, two of your pondhawk pictures (grenn species) showed females, depidted 
by the spread-out appendages at the end of the abdomen.

cheers
Erland Nielsen
Denmark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pilon, Michel" <mipilon at nrcan.gc.ca>
To: <odonata-l at listhost.ups.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 5:25 PM
Subject: [Odonata-l] 2 other specimens to identify ???


> Hello,
>
> First of all I would like to thank everybody who answered my previous id 
> question! It is really appreciated :-)
>
> As I'm new with dragonflies world I would like to identify the following 
> two...
>
> I photographied those 2 dragonflies to the Great
> Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (near Concord) Massachussets (August 31st 
> 2006)...
>
> Are they from the same species??? Is it possible to identify them
> (family/genum/species)???
>
> Thank you very much for your precious help!
>
> This first one looks like a male Common Skimmer (Libellula lydia). Am I 
> right???
>
> http://parcours.pilonm.org/pictures/inconnu14.jpg
>
>
> I'm more hesitating with the second one: Can it be the female Common 
> Skimmer or maybe the 12-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella) or another 
> species???
>
> http://parcours.pilonm.org/pictures/inconnu18.jpg
>
>
> Michel Pilon
> http://parcours.pilonm.org
>
> Sherbrooke
> Quebec Canada
>
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