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Beautiful Demoiselle

Calopteryx virgo

Photo by The MnMs
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Field Notes

Description:

The female has dark brown iridescent wings, a white patch near the tip of the wings (called a pseudopterostigma: a cell in the outer wing of insects which is often thickened or coloured and so stands out from other cells) and a metallic green body with a bronze tip of the abdomen.

Habitat:

http://www.natuurpunt.be/landschap-de-liereman-oud-turnhout
Found next to small river stream.

Reference Links:

Beautiful demoiselle, Landschap De Liereman - Oud-Turnhout | Natuurpunt

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