Bluetail
Profile
Red & Blue Damselfly
Female, profile
| Bluetail Profile | | Red & Blue Damselfly Female, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Dragonflies (Odonata) | ||||
| Family: | Damselfly (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Red & Blue Damselfly (Xanthagrion erythroneurum) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female, profile | ||||
| Other name: | Red and Blue Damselfly | ||||
Thank you Reiner Richter for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere An off white / buff Damselfly with red / orange & blue highlights with light red / orange legs. Finely hairy body & head. The tail has evenly distributed black bars on top, with blue rings at the segment joins. It is off white / buff underneath. Each wing tip has an opaque section, with edges & veins being finely serated. This specimen was trapped behind flyscreen, so we grabbed a glass & plastic cutting board and caught it. Took these photos and then let it go. You can see it's in poor condition, with over 7 ticks, damaged eye and missing part of it's wing tip. | |||||
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