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The final 2 dragonfly IDs for the season? (1 Viewer)

Macswede

Macswede
Didn't really expect to be posting any more dragonfly IDs this year but I saw a nice dragonfly at Tyresta National Park last Saturday and I got a good shot of another dragonfly at my local patch outside Stockholm today.
I've tried to ID them myself but I'm just not sure.

I think the first one is some kind of darter. I have learned that male darters are often red. I think it's a Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum or a Vagrant Darter Sympetrum vulgatum.
The second one seems to be a Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta but it could well be a Common Hawker Aeshna juncea

I'm probably way off with both!
 

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Macswede said:
Didn't really expect to be posting any more dragonfly IDs this year but I saw a nice dragonfly at Tyresta National Park last Saturday and I got a good shot of another dragonfly at my local patch outside Stockholm today.
I've tried to ID them myself but I'm just not sure.

I think the first one is some kind of darter. I have learned that male darters are often red. I think it's a Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum or a Vagrant Darter Sympetrum vulgatum.
The second one seems to be a Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta but it could well be a Common Hawker Aeshna juncea

I'm probably way off with both!
Me, of who'm everyone who is likely to answer this thread would say"Couldn't ID a Ruddy Darter", says:
Ruddy Darter and Migrant Hawker!.

PS

Its the whiskey talkingB :)
 
Not familiar with Vagrant Darter so I can't be certain of the first (it should have yellow stripes on legs like Common Darter) but the second has the long, narrow antehumeral stripes and the very 'waisted' segment in the abdomen typical of Common Hawker

ps - it's the wine talking!
 
YW Darter and Common Hawker?

My suspicion is yellow-winged darter but might be Common Darter, I can see yellow stripes on legs after putting image through Photoshop so I don't think its Ruddy Darter. And Common Hawker looks more likely to me as well.
Hugh
 
Sympetrum sanguineum (Ruddy Darter) and Aeshna juncea (Common Hawker) for me. I think the apparent leg stripe could just be light catching the top of the leg and on abdomen shape and depth of colour it looks right for Ruddy Darter. Thorax and eyes look deep reddish too.
 
Macswede said:
Didn't really expect to be posting any more dragonfly IDs this year but I saw a nice dragonfly at Tyresta National Park last Saturday and I got a good shot of another dragonfly at my local patch outside Stockholm today.
I've tried to ID them myself but I'm just not sure.

I think the first one is some kind of darter. I have learned that male darters are often red. I think it's a Ruddy Darter Sympetrum sanguineum or a Vagrant Darter Sympetrum vulgatum.
The second one seems to be a Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta but it could well be a Common Hawker Aeshna juncea

I'm probably way off with both!

In my opinion they are Ruddy Darter, the 'waist' on the abdomen is (even from an angular photograph) is more defined than the Common Darter. The other spm is a Common Hawker.

Harry
 
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Had a look at a site I found with a list of dragonflies that have been found in the municipality where my local patch is situated. None of the darters mentioned has been found there according to the list (don't know when it was last updated) but the Ruddy Darter has been found at other sites in the municipality.
I'm enlosing another picture in case that helps.
Graham
 

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Macswede said:
Had a look at a site I found with a list of dragonflies that have been found in the municipality where my local patch is situated. None of the darters mentioned has been found there according to the list (don't know when it was last updated) but the Ruddy Darter has been found at other sites in the municipality.
I'm enlosing another picture in case that helps.
Graham
It is a Ruddy Darter.
 
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