Range & Habitat:

Common in the northern counties.

Found in a variety of habitats, usually in forested areas.

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male dorsal

female dorsal

Description:

Larger than the other corporals, it usually perches on the ground or on flat surfaces.

Males become pruinose white on the front of the thorax and the abdomen.

Females and tenerals have a triangular dark basal patch on the hindwing, broad light stripes on the front of the thorax and a broad dark stripe down the abdomen.  Mature females may become thinly pruinose white on the front of the thorax and the base of the abdomen.

See Blue Corporal and White 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: 5/2
Late Date: 7/24

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