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Blue dragonfly

Zenithoptera sp.

Description:

Spotted along a river in the Amazon forest, note the grey lines along the wings

Habitat:

the Air

Notes:

A nice article about Zenithoptera from this blog: http://nwdragonflier.blogspot.com/2011/0...

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Zenithoptera sp. Zenithoptera


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5 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 12 years ago

Nice spotting, lovely color,

DeniseT
DeniseT 12 years ago

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this. :)

JennytheTurtle
JennytheTurtle 12 years ago

Ahhhhh, that makes sense now. It is such a beautiful and exotic looking dragonfly because it's from the amazon. Should've known. :P

Great shot! I've never seen a dragonfly with wings that looks like a soild colour. nice capture

Xinxin
Xinxin 12 years ago

thanks so much CindyKeiser! :)

Maria dB
Maria dB 12 years ago

A pretty one!

Xinxin
Spotted by
Xinxin

Peru

Spotted on May 12, 2009
Submitted on Mar 4, 2012

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