- American Rubyspot
- Amethyst Dancer
- Antillean Saddlebags
- Apache Dancer
- Apache Spiketail
- Arizona Snaketail
- Arroyo Bluet
- Arroyo Darner
- Aztec Dancer
- Band-winged Meadowhawk
- Black Meadowhawk
- Black Saddlebags
- Black Setwing
- Black-and-White Damsel
- Black-fronted Forktail
- Black-winged Dragonlet
- Bleached Skimmer
- Blue Dasher
- Blue-eyed Darner
- Blue-fronted Dancer
- Blue-ringed Dancer
- Boreal Bluet
- California Dancer
- California Spreadwing
- Canyon Rubyspot
- Cardinal Meadowhawk
- Carmine Skimmer
- Checkered Setwing
- Citrine Forktail
- Claw-tipped Bluet
- Comanche Skimmer
- Common Green Darner
- Common Whitetail
- Desert Firetail
- Desert Forktail
- Desert Shadowdamsel
- Desert Whitetail
- Double-striped Bluet
- Dusky Dancer
- Eastern Amberwing
- Eastern Pondhawk
- Eight-spotted Skimmer
- Emerald Spreadwing
- Familiar Bluet
- Fiery-eyed Dancer
- Filigree Skimmer
- Flame Skimmer
- Four-spotted Pennant
- Four-spotted Skimmer
- Giant Darner
- Gray Sanddragon
- Great Pondhawk
- Great Spreadwing
- Harkness' Dancer
- Hoary Skimmer
- Kiowa Dancer
- Lavender Dancer
- Malachite Darner
- Marl Pennant
- Mayan Setwing
- Mexican Amberwing
- Mexican Forktail
- Narrow-striped Forceptail
- Neon Skimmer
- Neotropical Bluet
- Northern Bluet
- Northern Spreadwing
- Pacific Forktail
- Paddle-tailed Darner
- Painted Damsel
- Paiute Dancer
- Pale Snaketail
- Pale-faced Clubskimmer
- Persephone's Darner
- Pin-tailed Pondhawk
- Plains Forktail
- Plateau Dragonlet
- Plateau Spreadwing
- Powdered Dancer
- Rambur's Forktail
- Red Rock Skimmer
- Red Saddlebags
- Red-tailed Pennant
- Riffle Darner
- Roseate Skimmer
- Russet-tipped Clubtail
- Sabino Dancer
- Serpent Ringtail
- Sierra Madre Dancer
- Slough Amberwing
- Sooty Dancer
- Spine-tipped Dancer
- Spot-tailed Dasher
- Spot-winged Glider
- Spot-winged Meadowhawk
- Spotted Spreadwing
- Springwater Dancer
- Straw-colored Sylph
- Striped Meadowhawk
- Striped Saddlebags
- Swift Setwing
- Taiga Bluet
- Tarascan Dancer
- Tezpi Dancer
- Thornbush Dasher
- Tonto Dancer
- Tule Bluet
- Turquoise-tipped Darner
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Variable Dancer
- Variable Darner
- Variegated Meadowhawk
- Vivid Dancer
- Wandering Glider
- Western Forktail
- Western Pondhawk
- Western Red Damsel
- Western/Eastern Pondhawk Intermediates
- White-belted Ringtail
- White-tailed Sylph
- Widow Skimmer
- Yaqui Dancer
Erythemis collocata
Common Name
Western Pondhawk
Family
Skimmers (Libellulidae)
Distribution map from southwestdragonflies.net
Western Pondhawk, Male, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 2 November 2008
Western Pondhawk, Male, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 7 November 2008
Western Pondhawk, Male, Salt River, Maricopa, AZ, 23 August 2008
Western Pondhawk, Male, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 29 March 2008
Western Pondhawk, Immature male, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 14 May 2009
Western Pondhawk, Immature male, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 15 June 2010
Western Pondhawk, Immature Male, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 20 August 2011. Insert shows lateral view of appendages.
Western Pondhawk, Female, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 2 November 2008
Western Pondhawk, Female, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 3 April 2011
Western Pondhawk, Female eating male Familiar Bluet, Enallagma civile, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 21 October 2008
Western Pondhawk, Female eating Gray Hairstreak, Strymon melinus, Kearny Lake, Pinal, AZ, 18 September 2010
Western Pondhawk, Teneral female, Wild Horse Pass, Maricopa, AZ, 17 April 2010
Western Pondhawk, Pair in wheel, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 22 April 2012
Western Pondhawk, Male, Kearny Lake, Pinal, AZ, 10 August 2008
Western Pondhawk, Female, Rio Salado, Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, 21 October 2007
"Oh what a tangled web we weave" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).