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NAMES

Calopteryx maculata
Common Name
Ebony jewelwing
Conservation Status
Least Concern (LC)

TAXONOMY

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum-Animalia
Arthropoda
Subphylum-Animalia
Hexapoda
Class-Animalia
Insecta
Order-Animalia
Odonata
Suborder-Animalia
Zygoptera
Family-Animalia
Calopterygidae
Genus-Animalia
Calopteryx
Country:
   United States
Issued:
   1999-10-01
Stamp:
   Calopteryx maculata
United States postage - Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing)
Country:
   United States
Issued:
   1999-10-01
Stamp:
   Calopteryx maculata
United States postage - Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing)
Country:
   United States
Issued:
   1999-10-01
Stamp:
   Calopteryx maculata
United States postage - Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing)

These photos of the Ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) were taken while hiking along the Joppenberg Trail Loop looking for ripe raspberries (which were found in abundance). The females have a white dot on the wing's top.

"[The] Joppenbergh Mountain Loop is a 1.4 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near High Falls, New York that offers the chance to see wildlife and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, and nature trips."


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Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing) female
Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing) female

Genus species (Animalia): Calopteryx maculata

The ebony jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) is a species of broad-winged damselfly. One of about 150 species of Calopterygidae, it is found in the eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada, ranging west to the Great Plains. Other common names include black-winged damselfly.

Breeding

Ebony jewelwings mate in the summer. The male holds the female behind her head with his tail or abdomen. The female lays eggs in the soft stems of aquatic plants. The naiad eats small aquatic insects. When the naiad is fully grown, it crawls out of the water and molts.

Ecology

Prey of this species includes the tiger mosquito, giant willow aphid, fungus gnats, crane flies, large diving beetles, eastern dobsonfly, water fleas, green darner, aquatic oligochaetes, caddisflies, rotifers, copepods, amphipods, dogwood borer, six-spotted tiger beetle, freshwater triclads, and green hydra.

Predators of this damselfly include birds such as the great crested flycatcher, American robin, mallard, red-winged blackbird, and blue jay, reptiles and amphibians such as the eastern painted turtle, common snapping turtle, and southern leopard frog, fish such as the bluegill, largemouth bass, yellow perch, creek chub, channel catfish, common carp, and northern hogsucker, mammals such as the big brown bat, and insects such as the green darner, large diving beetles, eastern dobsonfly, and common water strider.

The damselfly shelters among various plants and algaes in its habitat, including green algae, yellow water lily, hydrilla, lizard's tail, pickerelweed, common cattail, upright sedge, common bladderwort, common duckweed, black willow, orange jewelweed, spotted Joe-pye weed, poison ivy, wild grape, sassafras, common greenbrier, and buttonbush.


Reference: Wikipedia
Photo: P. Needle

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