Prince Baskettail (Epitheca princeps)

Identification: A fairly large dragon with brown wingtips, nodus area and base of wings. Both the thorax and abdomen are brown with tannish highlights. When perched this species has a tendency to arch its abdomen upward.

Female- Fluvanna County, Virginia on May 25, 2008

 

Different female- Fluvanna County, Virginia on May 25, 2008

Note the long cerci