Blue-tailed Green Darner

Description:

Male:- Face golden yellow to bright greenish yellow. Eyes: Blue with yellow and black behind. Thorax: Pale green. Legs: Black. Outer and inner surfaces of anterior femora is yellow. Wings: Transparent. Hindwing with large amber yellow patch. Wing spot: Long narrow and reddish. Abdomen: The first and second segment is pale green; however the second segment is turquoise blue dorsally. The third segment green with a pair of dorsal triangular turquoise blue spots. This is flanked by a pair of anterior and posterior bright orange spots. The segment 4-7 has 3 pairs of bright orange spots. In segments 8 and 9 two pairs of orange spots are confluent and segment 10 is entirely yellow. Female:- The female is similar to the male in most respects. However, the hindwing often lack the amber patch. The turquoise blue of second segment is broken into four square patches. The orange spots of the abdomen are more confluent.

Habitat:

A diurnal species, which occasionally, comes to light at night. This dragonfly is seen near marshes, ponds and big wells.

Notes:

Darners (Family: Aeshnidae) are large or medium sized, non-iridescent colored dragonflies. Eyes meet broadly overhead. The wings are transparent and species like the ‘Blue-tailed Green Darner’ have amber colored hindwing patches. The abdomen is longer than the wings and often tumid at the base.