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Baskettails

Baskettails

genus: Epitheca

Baskettails

Eight species are found in North America.  These are small to medium sized dragonflies with brown bodies, barely showing any green metallic coloration.  The thorax presents with a dot on both sides.  Their abdomen has yellow lateral stripes, or rather a pattern of browns and yellows, with yellow to brown face.  Wings are variably marked with patches or spots.  

Baskettails can be seen flying in feeding swarms on warm summer days in the morning and late afternoon to evening hours around ponds, lakes, slow streams, marshes and swamps.

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