- Emeralds
- Corduliidae Family
- Common Baskettail
- Epitheca cynosura
- Dot-winged Baskettail
- Epitheca petechialis
- Prince Baskettail
- Epitheca princeps
- Spiny Baskettail
- Epitheca spinigera
- Smoky Shadowdragon
- Neurocordulia molesta
- Orange Shadowdragon
- Neurocordulia xanthosoma
- Plains Emerald
- Somatochlora ensigera
This is a northern trans-continental species for which there is only one Nebraska record. It was found in Keya Paha Co. by Fred Sibley in the summer of 2008. It is brown with yellow spots on the sides of the abdomen. Male cerci each have a diagnostic sharp ventral spine. It is very similar to our other Tetragoneuria baskettails (Common and Dot-winged).
Spiny Baskettail male
Green indicates accepted county record (specimen or photograph).
Yellow indicates sight record only.
Size: 43-47mm (1.7-1.9 in)
Habitat: lakes, ponds and slow streams
Great Plains Range: NE, MN
Flight season: May to August