Need to Identify Damselfly: is it Pacific Forktail instead of Western? photo

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04-AUG-2009

Canon EOS 40D
1/1250s f/9.0 at 400.0mm iso800 full exif

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Rich Schilk		07-Aug-2009 06:12
Love your photos! I would say the Damselfly is a Pacific Forktail because of the four dots on the black top of the thorax. According to Paulson's "Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West" the only other damselfly with that pattern is the Plains Forktail which does not occur in So Cal. - Rich Schilk

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