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Setwings

Setwings

genus: Dythemis

Setwings

Five species are known in North America.  These are medium sized slender dragonflies with colorations of either browns, blues or blacks. The abdomen in the mature male can appear slightly clubbed. The wings are longer than the abdomen and may in some species display a lacy brown wing pattern or in others, a ting of brown. Setwings are known for their rather unique way of perching, with abdomen raised and wings lowered, in what is referred to by others to be that of a sprinter's "get-set" stance.

Setwings inhabit marshy areas, ponds, streams, lakes, ponds and rivers.

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