Blue-spotted Hawker Male, anterior | Blue-spotted Hawker Male, Wings & Back | |||||
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, profile | ||||
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 | |||||
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