This was my second day of odonating at each stream crossing along a small dirt track near Santa Fe. I was accompanied by fellow Canadian Connor Mitchinson who was keen to learn about odonates. Connor spotted this damselfly in the dark shadows at the edge of the trail. I immediately recognized it as a Philogeniidae. I took a few portrait photos and then focused on getting sharp images of the appendages. Then it flew and vanished into the vegetation. I compared the images to the diagrams in Westfall and Cumming (1956) and this individual matches Philogenia leonora.

This is the first record of P. leonora for iNaturalist, though the species is known from Panama. These are perhaps the only photographs of the species currently published on the internet.

Reference: Westfall, M. J., Cumming, R. B. (1956) Two new species of Phylogenia from the Panama Canal Zone (Odonata: Coenagriidae). Bulletin Florida State Museum Biological Sciences 1 (4): 241-252.

While searching for Pacific sand crabs, I found this. I initially thought it was just a bitten portion of a dead crustacean. However, upon further inspection, it was living and moving, and when I put it back, it dug into the shore just as a sand crab would.

As you can see more clearly in the second picture, it had a long body part extending in front of (or behind?) it, which is why I assumed part of it had been bitten.