Halloween pennant
(Celithemis eponina)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Biology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| NatureServe | N5 - Secure SNR - Unranked |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Size |
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Total Length: 1⅜″ to 1⅝″ |
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Habitat |
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Ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, swamps, bogs, ditches. |
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Biology |
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Season |
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Late May to mid-August |
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Behavior |
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Life Cycle |
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Naiad Food |
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Aquatic insects |
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Adult Food |
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Mosquitos, flies, gnats, and, occasionally, other dragonflies. |
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Distribution |
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Occurrence |
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Widespread and abundant |
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Taxonomy |
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Order |
Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) | ||
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Epiprocta | ||
| Infraorder | Anisoptera (dragonflies) | ||
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Cavilabiata | ||
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Libellulidae (skimmers) | ||
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Celithemis | ||
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Common Names |
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brown-spotted yellow-wing Halloween pennant |
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Lynn Rubey |
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| A Halloween Pennant using the obelisk position to cool off from the summer heat in The Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge. |  |
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| A female (left) on its perch as a male (right) Halloween Pennant approaches. She flew down into the prairie grasses and the male flew off into the distance, in The Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge. |  |
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Slideshows |
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| Celithemis eponinia (Halloween Pennant) Allen Chartier |
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| Halloween Pennant Victor Fazio |
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Other Videos |
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| Halloween Pennant Dragonfly Stoil Ivanov |
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About
Uploaded on Jul 3, 2011 Halloween Pennant ( Celithemis eponina ) filmed at Goose Lake Prairie 7-03-2011 |
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| Halloween Pennant Dragonfly Dah Professor |
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Uploaded on Aug 5, 2011 Imature Male Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) - Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 9 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey |
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| Halloween Pennant Dragonfly Basicbill's Outdoor and Travel Channel |
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About
Uploaded on Jul 9, 2011 Videoed at the Bluff Spring Fen Nature Preserve in Elgin, Illinois. On July 7, 2011. |
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| Alfredo Colon 10/16/2019 |
Location: Woodbury, MN |
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| Lynn Rubey 8/3/2019 |
Location: Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge A Halloween Pennant using the obelisk position to cool off from the summer heat in The Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge. |
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| Marie Freed 7/302019 |
Location: Rockville Minnesota near Pleasant Lake – my backyard |
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