Family Libellulidae: Skimmers
Order Odonata: Dragonflies And Damselflies
Family Libellulidae, Skimmers
Key Characteristics: Unmarked powder blue body (mature males) or green body with black markings on the abdomen (females/immature males); white appendages on the tip of the abdomen; eyes green; face green.
Key Characteristics: Face white; thorax and abdomen dark; single yellow spot on abdominal segment seven (mature male) or row of yellow spots on abdomen (female/immature male).
Key Characteristics: Three black patches on each wing; white patches develop between these black patches on mature males maturity. Females have a brown thorax with yellow lateral stripes. Large size.
Key Characteristics: Face white; eyes torquoise blue (mature males) or green to reddish-brown (females/immature males); abdomen powder blue with black tip (mature male) or dark with narrow parallel yellow stripes (females/immature males); base of each hindwing with amber patch.