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Thorax
and Head


Face

Appendages
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Photo
Details - ©Nicky
Davis
Chicken Creek, Juab
County, Utah
Lat 39° 28' 55.09" N,
Long 111°58' 27.63" W
Elevation 5077 feet.
June 07, 2006.
1., 2. Full lateral photos
3. Partial dorsal
4. Dorsal view of head, thorax and abdomen
5. Head and thorax, lateral
6. Head and thorax, dorsal
7. Face
8., 9., 10. Appendages
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Old Photos
11.,12. head, top and side of thorax, 13. Appendanges, 14. side
of thorax - October 17, 2005 -15. July 31, 2005 - Antelope Island
Causeway, Davis County, Utah - 6. August 23, 2005 ,off I-15 near
Scipio, but in Juab County, Utah ©Nicky Davis
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Characteristics
Size:
1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches
long. Thorax
bronze-black with yellow stripe down center of upper surface and 4 dark
spots
on the underside.
Lower appendages are
less than half
the length of the upper appendages. Stigma, dark brown. Habitat, ponds with
cattails, bulrushes and sedges. Adult food is a variety of
soft-bodied flying insects such as mosquitos, flies and moths.
This spot was full of gnats and mosquitoes.
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