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Description:

Blue-eye dragonfly

Habitat:

Park in the centre of Kuala Lumpur city

1 Species ID Suggestions

Saarbrigger
Saarbrigger 12 years ago
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Ischnura elegans


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7 Comments

Ilya Bezdelev
Ilya Bezdelev 12 years ago

Thanks for suggestions. It indeed looks like a Libellulidae family species.

MichaelFulbright
MichaelFulbright 12 years ago

This is most definitely a dragonfly. You can tell by the placement of the eyes on the head(a damselfly looks reminiscent of a hammerhead shark) If this was in the US, I would say it is in the Libelluladae family. I am not familiar enough with the Odonata of Malaysia to make a positive ID.

MichaelFulbright
MichaelFulbright 12 years ago

This is most definitely a dragonfly. You can tell by the placement of the eyes on the head(a damselfly looks reminiscent of a hammerhead shark) If this was in the US, I would say it is in the Libelluladae family. I am not familiar enough with the Odonata of Malaysia to make a positive ID.

Saarbrigger
Saarbrigger 12 years ago

Nice shot. These creatures look always intresting and theire colours are great too. I'm not sure, but it looks for me like a Blue-tailed Damselfly. Most of the people just say dragonfly.

Ilya Bezdelev
Ilya Bezdelev 12 years ago

@Greeneda, thanks. By the way I took about 20 pictures while it was sitting still as if it liked to be photographed.

Ilya Bezdelev
Ilya Bezdelev 12 years ago

@Ashish, Indeed, I didn't notice that...

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

It must be survived with serious accident. Its one wing look damaged.

Ilya Bezdelev
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Ilya Bezdelev

Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Spotted on Aug 1, 2010
Submitted on Jun 12, 2011

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