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Order Odonata - Dragonflies and Damselflies

The four-winged adults are agile aerial predators. The larvae, known as naiads, are aquatic predators with a lower lip (labium) that can be shot out to capture prey.
Family Aeshnidae - Darners
Family Aeshnidae - Darners 		Family Cordulegastridae - Spiketails
Family Cordulegastridae - Spiketails 		Family Corduliidae - Emeralds
Family Corduliidae - Emeralds 		Family Libellulidae - Skimmers
Family Libellulidae - Skimmers 		Family Calopterygidae - Broad-winged Damselflies
Family Calopterygidae - Broad-winged Damselflies 		Family Coenagrionidae - Narrow-winged Damselflies
Family Coenagrionidae - Narrow-winged Damselflies
Spotted Spreadwing (Lestes congener)
Spotted Spreadwing (Lestes congener)		 Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas)
Emerald Spreadwing (Lestes dryas)		 Black-shouldered Spinylegs (Dromogomphus spinosus)
Black-shouldered Spinylegs (Dromogomphus spinosus)		 Black-shouldered Spinylegs (Dromogomphus spinosus)
Black-shouldered Spinylegs (Dromogomphus spinosus)		 Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus)
Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus)		 Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus) naiad, family Gomphidae
Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus) naiad, family Gomphidae

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