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Broad scarlet dragonfly

Crocothemis erythraea

Description:

body is orange coloured; wings transparent and slanting forward and down; size - approx. 3 to 3.5 cm; Photo taken in Al Wathba Wetland Reserves, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Habitat:

Tropical dry shrubland; marshy areas

2 Comments

I finally found a page with known Dragonflies from your area here http://www.ddcr.org/florafauna/Detail.as... and it appearsthat you have photographed the Crocothemis erythraea
Another ID feature for the Kirby's Dropwing is the upper limbs of the centre and hind leg are black, not red, see this picture: http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayi...
By the way, in the Scientific name field can you please put only the "Genus + species" and any other scientific details should go in the Notes section.

Definitely NOT a Kirby's Dropwing, they have large orange patches on the inner wings, and the stigmas are very dark with a touch of red at the ends. The colour of the abdomen (more correct than body) of yours is more scarlet than orange.
Take a look at this Kirby http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/109... for the orange patches and stigma pattern.

Karan Raghwa
Spotted by
Karan Raghwa

Abu Dhabi, أبو ظبي, United Arab Emirates

Spotted on Jan 10, 2015
Submitted on Jan 26, 2015

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