One of my personal favourites, a wonderfully delicate damsel but it’s the glittering array of female colour forms that fascinates.
Id Notes
- bi-coloured pterostigma
- ♂ – dorsal side of abdomen bronze-black except S8 which is blue
- ♂ – blue side of thorax and antehumeral stripes
- imm. ♂ – green but still with dark dorsal side to abdomen
- ♀ – five colour variations, some being immature versions (see photos)
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| female colour variations | pair in cop | ||||
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Look out for:
- bi-coloured pterostigma;
- bronze-black abdomen with contrasting sky-blue S8 (♂);
- S8 blue or brown in some variations (♀);
- the female colour variations.
