Saturday, June 18, 2016

Damselflies, dragonflies, butterflies and one beetle

Some of my identifications below should have I think or at least a question mark included in the naming.  Happy to have any corrections or disagreements.  


Male Familiar bluet (Enallagma civile), Rouge River channel, Dearborn


Female Eastern forktail (Ischnura verticalis), Rouge River channel


Fragile forktail (Ischnura posita), Rouge River channel


Immature heteromorph** female Eastern forktail, Rouge River channel


Above and below:  Male Eastern forktail (Ischnura verticalis), Rouge River channel



Little wood-satyr (Megisto cymela), Rouge River channel


Northern crescent (Phyciodes cocyta), Rouge River channel


Female common whitetail (Libellula lydia), Hickory Glen Park, Commerce Township


 Silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus), Hickory Glen Park


Ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata), Hickory Glen Park


Female chalk-fronted corporal (Libellula julia), Hickory Glen Park


Six-spotted tiger beetle (Cicindela sexguttata), Hickory Glen Park


Immature male common whitetail (Libellula lydia), Hickory Glen Park


Female common whitetail, Hickory Glen Park


* Andromorph:  An organism with male physical characteristics; male mimic.

** Heteromorphic:  Having different forms at different periods of the life cycle, as in stages of insect metamorphosis.

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