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Band-winged Meadowhawk - Sympetrum semicinctum occidentale



Flight Season

Early Date: June 17    Late Date: September 28
Rare Abundance Scale Abundant
FLIGHT SEASON
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Description

Uncommon to common statewide in marshes, wetlands, and wet ditches. This dragonfly was formerly known as Western Meadowhawk and can be distinguished from the nominate form of the east by using a hand lens to examine the structure of the claspers and secondary genitalia.

Size

Although some species show a bit of variation in size, the following graphic will give you a general feeling for the normal size of this species.

State Status:  S4      Global Status:  G5


Geographic Distribution - 68 Counties

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Recorded in These Counties
Adair Allamakee Audubon Black Hawk Boone
Bremer Buchanan Buena Vista Butler Calhoun
Carroll Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee
Clay Clinton Crawford Dallas Delaware
Des Moines Dickinson Emmet Fayette Floyd
Franklin Fremont Guthrie Hamilton Hancock
Harrison Howard Ida Jackson Jasper
Johnson Jones Keokuk Kossuth Linn
Lucas Lyon Mahaska Marion Marshall
Mills Mitchell Monona Monroe Muscatine
O'Brien Osceola Page Plymouth Polk
Pottawattamie Poweshiek Sac Shelby Sioux
Story Tama Warren Webster Winneshiek
Woodbury Worth Wright