Horned clubtail
The horned clubtail is a clubtail dragonfly of Canada and the United States.
The horned clubtail is long and lacks an abdominal club. It has a greenish thorax with black stripes and a black abdomen with a light stripe along the top. It has blue eyes and black legs. It also has distinctive wide forked yellow claspers shaped like cow horns and a large sloped bridge between the eyes.
The horned clubtail lives in ponds and sluggish streams. Its range includes Canada and several U.S. states:
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Montana – Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, and Wibaux Counties; only in artificial reservoirs.
- Nebraska – Cherry and Cuming Counties
- New York –
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming