Spotted Spreadwing
 Lestes congener

Female

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Photo Details - ŠNicky Davis

Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah
Lat 39° 28' 55.09" N,   Long 111°58' 27.63" W
Elevation  5077 feet.
June 07, 2006.

1., 2. Full lateral photos
3.  Partial dorsal
4.  Dorsal view of head, thorax and abdomen
5.  Head and thorax, lateral
6.  Head and thorax, dorsal
7.  Face
8., 9., 10.  Appendages


Also located  - October 17, 2005 -15. July 31, 2005 - Antelope Island Causeway, Davis County, Utah
 August 23, 2005 ,off I-15 near Scipio, but  in Juab County, Utah


Characteristics
Size: 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches long. Thorax bronze-black with yellow stripe down center of upper surface and 4 dark spots on the undersid
e.   Lower appendages are less than half the length of the upper appendages.  Stigma, dark brown.  Habitat,  ponds with cattails, bulrushes and sedges. Adult  food is a variety of soft-bodied flying insects such as mosquitos, flies and moths.  This spot was full of gnats and mosquitoes.


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