1 5/8-2", wingspan 1 1/8-3 1/2". Body dark brown, sometimes with yellow stripes on sides; thorax somewhat hairy. Fore and hind wings blackish brown up to halfway toward tip; wing tips clear or smoky-brown, especially in female.

Near ponds, small lakes, and marshes.

Ontario and Atlantic Coast to Georgia and Gulf Coast, west to Texas and northern Mexico, north to South Dakota.

Adults eat smaller flying insects. Naiad feed on small aquatic insects.

Female, often unattended by male, drops eggs into pond water. Naiads Crawl a few feet or more from water, cling to vegetation, and emerge as adults in April in the South, in late summer in the North.

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