Tau Emerald
Male, profile
Tau Emerald
Male, Body
| Tau Emerald Male, profile | | Tau Emerald Male, Body | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Dragonflies (Odonata) | ||||
| Family: | Emerald Dragonfly (Epiprocta: Corduliidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Tau Emerald (Hemicordulia tau) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, in flight | ||||
Thank you Stephen Fricker for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: During flight, the bottom of the legs (feet) of Odonata tuck in behind their head. You can just see it here (the extra black behind the head) General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges, the Riverland and elsewhere Different to the Australian Emerald (H. australiae) in a few ways. The Tau has: 1. Orange leading wing veins & wing patch (pterostigma), rather than black 2. An orange spot at the end of it's tail (segment 10) 3. An inverted "T" on it's face (unfortunately we didn't capture this in the photo's, yet) | |||||
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