Slender Spreadwing (Lestes rectangularis)

Identification: Note the pale/clear wing tips, the long abdomen, short thorax and the pale tarsi.

Teneral male observed in Charles City County, Virginia
May 21, 2006

Same individual as above

Note pale vein at wing tip; same individual as above

Female- Charles City County, Virginia
July 4, 2006

(note pale tarsi)

(close-up of female appendages)

Male cerci and paraproct