Tau Emerald: Male, Clasps

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, Clasps

Thank you Stephen Fricker for confirming the id of this species for us

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)

This species is

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

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