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Spot-tailed Dasher Micrathyria aequalis:

Update October 11, 2008: added a striking young male and a mature female - at the bottom of the page.

This male was patrolling a tiny territory along the canal south of the Bentsen WBC buildings, Hidalgo County in mid-July 2006:


Update October 11, 2008:
Note how strikingly different the young males look; this one from next to the resaca at Bentsen State Park WBC in June 2008:



- and this young male is from the National Butterfly Center, Hidalgo Coutny on October 12, 2012:






a mature female from the resaca at Bentsen State Park WBC in June 2008