Four-spotted Pennant

Brachymesia gravida · Order: Odonata · Family: Libellulidae

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Four-spotted Pennant
Photo: Michael D Fox, CC BY

The four-spotted pennant lives in North America. Its native range is also North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It occurs naturally in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 20 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Four-spotted Pennant photo 3
Photo: Laura Clark, CC BY
Four-spotted Pennant photo 4
Photo: Ben Machado, CC BY
Four-spotted Pennant photo 5
Photo: Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA
Four-spotted Pennant photo 6
Photo: Chuck Martin, CC BY-SA

Same family (Libellulidae)

Blue DasherBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisEastern PondhawkEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisCommon WhitetailCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaWidow SkimmerWidow SkimmerLibellula luctuosaAutumn MeadowhawkAutumn MeadowhawkSympetrum vicinumCommon DarterCommon DarterSympetrum striolatum

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachymesia_gravida

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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