Band-winged Meadowhawk -  Libellulidae Sympetrum  semicinctum - Immature Male
(formerly Western  Meadowhawk
-   Libellulidae   Sympetrum  occidentale)
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Immature Male Western Meadowhawk
Immature Male Western Meadowhawk

Immature male Western Meadowhawk
Immature Male
                Western Meadowhawk
Immature male Western Meadowhawk
Immature Male Western Meadowhawk







Photo Details
August 5, 2005, Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah  ŠNicky Davis

Characteristics
1 to 1 1/2 inches long.  Male upper abdomen is dark red with black markings on the lower sides.  The top of segments 8 and 9  are black.  They have 3 black, irregular stripes on the sides of the thorax.  Eyes and face are dark orange-red. The wings are a rust color  from the base  to the  nodus (slight bend in a tthe wing). The female is yellow instead of red and sometimes the wings are not as colored as the male.  The immature male is colored like the female.

Pronunciation
lib-ell-YEW-lid-ee   sim-PEAT-rum 

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