Inland Ringtail
Male, body, dorsal
Inland Ringtail
Male, holding Female before Mating
| Inland Ringtail Male, body, dorsal | | Inland Ringtail Male, holding Female before Mating | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Dragonflies (Odonata) | ||||
| Family: | Spreadwing (Zygoptera: Lestidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Inland Ringtail (Austrolestes aridus) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Pair before Mating🔎 | ||||
Thank you John Tann for identifying and Reiner Richter for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~37mm to ~40mm long. While we recognised the males a long time ago, we recently found a female (shown here as S13) that we thought was a Slender Ringtail (Austrolestes analis). John recognised it as this species and said: "Light-coloured band below humeral stripe has a wobbly boundary. There are about 4 strong wobbles for aridus cf more and flatter for analis L-mark of analis is longer than L-mark of aridus 45% cf 39% to nipple on humeral stripe - here I measured it as 38%. Female analis abdomen 8,9,10 light-dark boundary horizontal more-or-less cf aridus which slopes up - here that part of the tail slopes up which makes it a bit harder to see, but in photo #2, light colour of segment 9 slopes up toward tail tip". It shows how similar the females are of this genus. | |||||
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