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Baskettails
Epitheca
Epitheca is a genus of dragonflies in the family Corduliidae. They are commonly known as baskettails. Baskettails' distinction is the specially adapted, upturned abdomen tip of the females which allows them to carry their egg masses in a small, orange-tinted globule.
Some authorities spin off the North American baskettails into two new genera, Epicordulia and Tetragoneuria, but this has not gained widespread acceptance and most references place them under this genus.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 12 known species
Prince Baskettail
speciesEpitheca princeps
Common Baskettail
speciesEpitheca cynosura
Beaverpond Baskettail
speciesEpitheca canis
Spiny Baskettail
speciesEpitheca spinigera
Eurasian Baskettail
speciesEpitheca bimaculata
Dot-winged Baskettail
speciesEpitheca petechialis
Mantled Baskettail
speciesEpitheca semiaquea
Slender Baskettail
speciesEpitheca costalis
Robust Baskettail
speciesEpitheca spinosa
Florida Baskettail
speciesEpitheca stella
Epitheca marginata
speciesEpitheca marginata
Sepia Baskettail
speciesEpitheca sepia
Beaverpond × Spiny Baskettail
hybridEpitheca canis × spinigera
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88207.