The Dragonflies
(Insecta: Odonata)
of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia:
Field Surveys, Collections Development and Public Education
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Return to Genus Sympetrum
Sympetrum costiferum
(Hagen)
Saffron-winged Meadowhawk
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Provincial Status:
CDC rank: S5
Common in southern British Columbia. Columbia-Kootenay
Distribution
Widespread in the region.
Global Distribution
British Columbia east to Newfoundland; south to New Jersey, Kentucky,
Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico and California (Bick and Mauffray
2000). Faunal element: Transition (see Appendix
2).
Biological information
S. costiferum lives in marshes, marshy lakeshores and ponds.
It also lives in saline ponds in the region, and may be the most
tolerant Sympetrum of alkaline conditions (Walker and Corbet
1975). Columbia Basin records of adults range from 18 July to 18
October; dates for all of British Columbia are 8 July to 1 November
(Cannings and Stuart 1977).
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