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Orthetrum coerulescens
This is a slim looking dragonfly, some 5cm in length. The wings have a straw yellow costa and golden-yellow pterostigma. The male develops a blue pruinescence over the whole length of the abdomen.
This is a common European species, found around ponds and other water bodies - here, in a small artificial pond in pre-Alps.
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