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Rhionaeschna multicolor (Blue-eyed Darner)BC conservation rank: S5. Yellow List.Description: Thorax stripes straight (fig. 7o). Its face line, if it has one, is thin and pale brown. Male's face and eyes are sky-blue; the thorax stripes and abdomen spots are blue; upper appendages forked (fig. 9b). Female's thorax stripes and abdomen spots are either blue or yellow. Length: male 69 mm, female 67 mm. Global Range: British Columbia east to Alberta; south to Montana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico and California. Also recorded in Massachusetts (Needham et al. 2000). Faunal element: Western (see Appendix 2). BC Distribution: Widespread south of about 51°N; two records well to the north at McBride and Lakelse Lake; the latter is from 2005 and is not mapped. Biology: Common around marshes and marshy lakeshores and ponds (Wm04-06) in southern valleys. BC flight period: early May to mid October; almost all records fall between early June and mid September.
Rhionaeschna multicolor Map 3. Frequency of records in British Columbia by NTS 1/50,000 mapsheet. |
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