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Autumn Meadowhawk

Sympetrum vicinum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 759, February 778, March 1,232, April 2,411, May 4,632, June 2,171, July 1,634, August 2,569, September 2,637, October 2,091, November 796, December 710.
United States35,949
Canada16,870
Ontario11,493
Ohio10,031
Massachusetts2,819
New York2,655
Quebec2,582
Minnesota2,280
Vermont2,044
Michigan1,831

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderDragonflies and Damselflies · Odonata
FamilySkimmers · Libellulidae
GenusMeadowhawks · Sympetrum

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