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title: "Chalk-fronted Corporal"
description: "Ladona julia — Insecten en spinnen. The chalk-fronted corporal (Ladona julia) is a skimmer dragonfly found in the northern United States and southern Canada."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/chalk-fronted-corporal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Chalk-fronted Corporal

> Ladona julia — Insecten en spinnen. The chalk-fronted corporal (Ladona julia) is a skimmer dragonfly found in the northern United States and southern Canada.

- Scientific name: *Ladona julia*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 21798
- Wikidata: [Q1374142](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1374142)
- iNaturalist taxon: [57458](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/57458)

## Names

- en: Chalk-fronted Corporal
- fr: Julienne

## Countries with the most observations

CA (11373), US (9329)

## Summary

The chalk-fronted corporal (Ladona julia) is a skimmer dragonfly found in the northern United States and southern Canada.
Juveniles of both sexes are light reddish brown, with white shoulder stripes and a black stripe down the middle of the abdomen.  As they mature, males develop a white pruinescence on the top of the thorax and at the base of the abdomen, while the rest of the abdomen turns black.  Females become almost uniformly dark brown, with a dusting of gray pruinescence near the base of the abdomen; a few develop the same color pattern as the males.
Chalk-fronted corporals often perch horizontally on the ground…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk-fronted_corporal

## Photo

![Chalk-fronted Corporal](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chalk-fronted-corporal/medium.jpg)

Photo: Brighton Lee · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/366224803

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chalk-fronted-corporal?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).