Minnesota Seasons - Halloween pennant

Total length: 1⅜″ to 1⅝″

Ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, swamps, bogs, ditches.

Late May to mid-August

Aquatic insects

Mosquitos, flies, gnats, and, occasionally, other dragonflies.


Distribution
		Sources 7, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 82, 83 Biodiversity occurrence data published by: Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas (accessed through the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas Portal, bellatlas.umn.edu, 7/29/2025).
7/29/2025

Occurrence
Widespread and abundant


Taxonomy
Order	Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
Suborder	Anisoptera (dragonflies)
Superfamily	Libelluloidea
Family	Libellulidae (skimmers)
Genus	Celithemis (small pennants)

Subordinate Taxa


Synonyms
Libellula camilla Libellula eponina Libellula lucilla

Common Names
brown-spotted yellow-wing Halloween pennant


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Lynn Rubey

		A female (left) on its perch as a male (right) Halloween Pennant approaches. She flew down into the prairie grasses and the male flew off into the distance, in The Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge.
A Halloween Pennant using the obelisk position to cool off from the summer heat in The Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge.


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Celithemis eponinia (Halloween Pennant)
Allen Chartier

Halloween Pennant
Victor Fazio

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Halloween Pennant Dragonfly
Stoil Ivanov

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Uploaded on Jul 3, 2011

Halloween Pennant ( Celithemis eponina ) filmed at Goose Lake Prairie 7-03-2011

Halloween Pennant Dragonfly
Dah Professor

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Uploaded on Aug 5, 2011

Imature Male Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) - Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary, 9 Hardscrabble Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey

Halloween Pennant Dragonfly
Basicbill's Outdoor and Travel Channel

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Uploaded on Jul 9, 2011

Videoed at the Bluff Spring Fen Nature Preserve in Elgin, Illinois. On July 7, 2011.

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