Family Libellulidae: Skimmers

Order Odonata: Dragonflies And Damselflies

Family Libellulidae, Skimmers

Eastern Pondhawk (male)
Eastern Pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis

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.

Dot-tailed Whiteface
Dot-tailed Whiteface, Leucorrhinia intacta

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).

Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Twelve-spotted Skimmer, Libellula pulchella

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.

Four-spotted Skimmer, Libellula quadrimaculata
Blue Dasher (male)
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis

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.

Wandering Glider, Pantala flavescens
Saffron-winged Meadowhawk, Sympetrum costiferum
Black Meadowhawk, Sympetrum danae
White-faced Meadowhawk
White-faced Meadowhawk, Sympetrum obtrusum
Ruby Meadowhawk, Sympetrum rubicundulum
Band-winged Meadowhawk, Sympetrum semicinctum
Autumn Meadowhawk
Autumn Meadowhawk, Sympetrum vicinum
Carolina Saddlebags, Tramea carolina
Black Saddlebags, Tramea lacerata