Nebraska Dragonflies and Damselflies

Eastern Amberwing

Perithemis tenera

Say, 1839

The Eastern Amberwing is a tiny, wide ranging species. The male can be easily identified by its orange wings. Females have a variable wing pattern of brown and orange. Both sexes have two pale yellowish stripes on each side of the brown thorax and a ringed abdomen.

This is a common eastern species reaching its western limit in Nebraska, where it is absent from a number of southwestern and southern Panhandlecounties. It is found flying very low over ponds and lakes where itperches on almost any emergent material, but it is also common at badly-degraded duck ponds in city parks where Familiar Bluet may be theonly other odonate.

Green indicates accepted county record (specimen or photograph).
Yellow indicates sight record only.