Blue-spotted Hawker: Male, anterior

Blue-spotted Hawker (Adversaeschna brevistyla)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Dragonflies (Odonata)

Family:

Hawker Dragonfly (Epiprocta: Aeshnidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Blue-spotted Hawker (Adversaeschna brevistyla)

This Photo:

Male, anterior

Thank you Reiner Richter & Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Notice with Dragonflies, they sit with their wings out flat, horizontally. The different sizes of the appendages between the male and female is very obvious in these images

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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