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  Arrowhead Spiketail
            Cordulegaster obliqua (Say, 1839)

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Species distribution map

Range & Habitat:

Found in the northern tier of counties.

Found patrolling slowly along small, usually muddy, trickles and streams.

  

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Description:

Blackish, with green eyes, yellow thoracic stripes and a single row of arrowhead shaped yellow spots down the top of the abdomen. Delta-spotted Spiketail and  Twin-Spotted Spiketail  have paired dorsal spots.  'Georgia' River Cruiser has a single lateral thoracic strip and does not normally occur in the NJ range of Arrowhead Spiketail.

 

Conservation Status:

State: S2 - Imperiled in New Jersey

Global: G4 - Apparently secure globally

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Flight season:

Early Date: 4/23
Late Date: 6/25

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Flight Season
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Number of Records
25 
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Months

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Date, distribution, and status data courtesy of Allen Barlow, NJOS
© 2006 Jim Bangma, NJOS  Comments or suggestions?  Use the Feedback Form