Saddlebag Glider

Hi John - I greatly appreciate your ID suggestion and it was key to me internet searching similar species. Visit this location in Mindanao most years and I'm always seeing things I would like to name so future help would be great!

Hi arc (Andy), I think you are absolutely right and you can now update your spotting to show the Common and Scientific names. I apologise for not getting it correct in my ID suggestion. The later photo, that you added, does make the ID a bit easier, but now that I have looked again, I can see some other little details that I missed. So, it worked out, in the end and that's all that matters. Well done! Now, if you would like me to cancel my wrong ID suggestion, to make your page "tidy", I will do that - no problem, but it might serve a better purpose to leave it there. If others look at your dragonfly, while trying to identify one of their own spottings, they will see how easy it is to go wrong by overlooking small small interspecific differences and that might help to prevent them from making the same kind of mistake. I will just leave my ID suggestion, unless you want me to remove it. I look forward to seeing more great spottings from the Davao Region and if I notice that you are struggling, I will try to help.

I added another photo showing 'saddlebags'

Hi John - thanks so much for your comments and suggestion. While I was looking it up I noticed Saddlebag Glider (Tramea transmarina) and I realised it does have the 'saddlebags' on the hind wing. What do you think?
Thanks again,
Andy

Hi arc, That is a very beautiful picture. I think your dragonfly is a male Scarlet Basker - Urothemis signata. I will send you a Species ID Suggestion so that you can take a look and see what you think.