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  Black-tipped Darner
            Aeshna tuberculifera Walker, 1908

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Range & Habitat:

Recorded throughout NW NJ, it is usually found along small ponds and marshy streams.

Black-tipped Darner male lateral 

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Description:

Elegant, with nearly straight thoracic stripes and blue spots on the abdomen. If seen well, S10 is all black, unlike our other darners. 

It may tend to patrol farther from shore than most of our other darners.
 

 

Conservation Status:

State: S1S2 - Imperiled to critically imperiled in New Jersey

Global: G4 - Apparently secure globally

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Flight season:

Early Date: 7/29
Late Date: 11/1

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Flight Season

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Number of Records
1 4 4 3 1
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Months

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Date, distribution, and status data courtesy of Allen Barlow, NJOS

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