- 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
- Cerulean Dancer
- 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
- Pacific Spiketail
- Paddle-tailed Darner
- Painted Damsel
- Paiute Dancer
- Pale Snaketail
- Pale-faced Clubskimmer
- Persephone's Darner
- Pima Dancer
- 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
- Sooty Saddlebags
- 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
Orthemis discolor
Common Name
Carmine Skimmer
Family
Skimmers (Libellulidae)
Distribution Map from southwestdragonflies.net
Carmine Skimmer, Male, Mazatlan, Nayarit, Mexico, 5 October 2009
Carmine Skimmer, Male, Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, 13 August 2009
Carmine Skimmer, Male, Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Southern Amazon, Brazil, 16 August 2010
Carmine Skimmer, Male, Alamos, Mexico, 13 August 2009
Carmine Skimmer, Male, Alamos, Mexico, 13 August 2009