Range & Habitat:

Occurs throughout the coastal plain.  A recently discovered disjunct population exists in Sussex County.

One of our earliest odes, it is most commonly found near sandy lakes and ponds.

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female dorsal

Description:

Small, usually perches on the ground.  Adult males are dull blue.

Tenerals and females have two dark basal streaks on each hindwing, a row of wide black triangles down the abdomen and narrow white stripes on the front of the thorax.  See White Corporal and Chalk-fronted Corporal.

While some consider the corporals to fall in the genus Libellula, we follow Needham, Westfall & May and place them in the separate genus Ladona.

Conservation Status:

Global: G5 - Secure globally, but possibly rare in parts of its range

Flight season:

Early Date: 4/7
Late Date: 7/26

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