Erythemis simplicicollis, eastern pondhawk Description
English: Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis), male, Oscar Scherer Park, Venice, Florida
Date 11 March 2011
Author D. Gordon E. Robertson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dger
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_Pondhawk,_male,_Florida.jpg
Erythemis simplicicollis, the eastern pondhawk, also known as the common pondhawk, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is a dragonfly of ponds and still waters. The species is distinguished in that the female is bright green with a banded abdomen and the mature male has a blue abdomen with a green face and green and blue thorax. Order: Odonata, Family: Libellulidae, Genus: Erythemis, Species: Erythemis simplicicollis (Say, 1839).
