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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-85--732023426 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Tuma, On 11-Jul-11, at 10:17 PM, Tuma Young wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I took a picture of a dragonfly that I have not seen before. Very > striking is that it looked like it was waving two sets of marine > flags. > > Here is the link to the picture and I would appreciate any help in > id'ing this beautiful creature. > > http://gallery.me.com/tumayoung#101077/Sa%27aqtiyej&bgcolor=black I'm not an expert on dragonflies but I think this is Libellula lydia (Drury), the Common Whitetail. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Whitetail Cheers, Chris Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada * Research Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm * Review Editor: The Coleopterists Bulletin | http://www.coleopsoc.org/ * Subject Editor: ZooKeys | http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index * Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html * Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/index.html * Editor: Bugguide, Coleoptera http://bugguide.net Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war- horse at the sound of a trumpet. - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-85--732023426 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Tuma,<div><br><div><div>On = 11-Jul-11, at 10:17 PM, Tuma Young wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, = serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Folks:</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I took a picture of a dragonfly = that I have not seen before. Very striking is that it looked like = it was waving two sets of marine flags. </div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Here is the = link to the picture and I would appreciate any help in id'ing this = beautiful creature.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><span><a target=3D"_blank" = href=3D"http://gallery.me.com/tumayoung#101077/Sa%27aqtiyej&bgcolor=3D= black">http://gallery.me.com/tumayoung#101077/Sa%27aqtiyej&bgcolor=3Db= lack</a></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I'm = not an expert on dragonflies but I think this is <i>Libellula = lydia</i> (Drury), the Common = Whitetail.</div><br></div><div>See: <a = href=3D"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Whitetail">http://en.wikipedia= .org/wiki/Common_Whitetail</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>= <br></div><div>Chris</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited=3D"true"> = <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Christopher Majka <<a = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> = | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>* Research = Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | <a = href=3D"http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm">http://museum.gov.n= s.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm</a></div><div>* Review Editor: The = Coleopterists Bulletin | <a = href=3D"http://www.coleopsoc.org/">http://www.coleopsoc.org/</a></div><div= >* Subject Editor: ZooKeys | <a = href=3D"http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index">http://p= ensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index</a></div><div>* = Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | <a = href=3D"http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html">http://www.acadianes.org/jo= urnal.html</a></div><div>* Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | <a = href=3D"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/index.html">http://w= ww.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/index.html</a></div><div>* Editor: = Bugguide, Coleoptera <a = href=3D"http://bugguide.net">http://bugguide.net</a></div><div><br></div><= div><i>Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like = an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet.</i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>- = Charles Darwin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><= /span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-85--732023426--
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