A pair of spotted spreadwings in tandem. The male is at the left atop a stick which crosses the photo at the center. The female is on the right end of the stick. There is another stick behind them which crosses the photo diagonally from the left. The male is black with large blue eyes. Its four wings are clear except for veining and black spots at the bottom edge of each wing. He has his claspers in the back of her thorax, which is how they mate. She is grasping the bottom of the twig. Her body is more brown. Her front legs are grasping the stick and her body stretches down and curves back up to the stick, which she is holding onto the stick. Her eyes are dark.

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