Identification

Field Marks

• Average adult size is approximately from 1.2 to 1.3 inches
• Face pale to white below with green frons
• Grey-green eyes
• Green thorax with well developed shoulder stripes that connect at the bottom
• 3rd thoracic stripe is either broken or incomplete 4th is narrow but complete
• Dark abdomen with candle shaped top spots on segments 3 to 7 dash on segment 8 and a dot on segments 9 and 10
• Pale side patches on segments 7 to 9
• Forked Cerci

Identification

Field Marks

• Female has pale side patches on all abdominal segments except 10
• Abdomen not as widely clubbed as the male
• Medium sized, pale subgenital plates which are pointed at the end
• Darker and more extensive yellow on wings than the male

Behavior

Pygmy Snaketails spend most of their time in the tree tops. Males will patrol over the water but patrol times are short and then they head back to cover. Pygmy Snaketails have two distinct populations the ones in this area, Minnesota and Wisconsin, are a part of the western population

Habitat

Clear, clean moderate to large rivers with shallow riffles and a sandy or gravel bottom

Reproduction

Females lay eggs by flying swiftly in a circular pattern over the current and dipping their abdomen