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 occidentale
Bartenev
Western Meadowhawk
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Provincial Status:
CDC rank: S5
Common and widespread south of 52°
N. Columbia-Kootenay Distribution
Widespread in the region's valleys.
Global Distribution
Southern British Columbia and Alberta east to Minnesota; south to
Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and California (Bick and
Mauffray 2000). Faunal element: Western (see
Appendix 2).
Biological information
S. occidentale lives in a wide variety of ponds, marshes
and lakes. Kootenay records range from 30 June to 27 August while
the known flight period for the province is 20 June (most emerge
after the middle of July) to 11 October (Cannings and Stuart 1977;
S.G. Cannings, unpubl. data).
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