I love dragonflies, need identification

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I love dragonflies so very much, but don’t know how to identify this one:

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I posted on Twitter about it too.

At any rate, I collect dragonfly jewelry and such, not at an incredible rate, just when I find something or my husband does. I pretty much always have something dragonfly around my neck or hanging from my ears. 🙂

If I could figure out what the above pictured dragonfly is (taken by me with a Canon EOS 7D EFS-24mm 2.8) it would be great. It’s been hanging around that dead branch in my backyard today (Southeast US). It’s rather tattered, so I’m thinking it must be near the end of it’s lifecycle. IRL it looks very much like the photos, Dark, brown, wings gossamer, sparkly, and that brown tipped edge is nearly gold. Head is dark too, and the browns on it are almost reddish, just such a dark dragonfly. Looks kinda like a gray petaltail, but I’m not comfortable saying it’s one at all. FWIW




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