Brown-eyed Blue-eyed darner...

I think this may be female, and their coloration can vary...

comments (5)

Christine Young

Lion

WOW!! What a beauty! Posted 4 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  I hope I got the ID right…. It’s an oddball for a blue-eyed…. body color like a male, but eyes like a female. The pattern on the face fits that species best though, and it’s not really a match to any other local species either. Posted 4 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    I just compared it to these two observations:
    
    https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/86148760
    https://bugguide.net/node/view/437005#1051636
    
    It's so close to matching and since coloration can vary, it seems like a match. But, I am not good at IDing Odonates. I wonder if it could be an immature male (if the body matches the male?)? I don't know. Hope you can confirm the ID! Posted 4 years ago

Flown Kimmerling

Lion

amazing pattern on abdomen! Posted 4 years ago

William Bodine

Lion

This dragonfly looks like it's stained-glass. Like the angle of the abdomen in conjunction with the twigs in the position of the wings. Very unique. Posted 4 years ago

The Blue-eyed darner

The blue-eyed darner is a dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae. The blue-eyed darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma. In Central America it occurs south to Panama.

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Similar species: Dragonflies And Damselflies

Species identified by morpheme