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You're welcome. I'm no expert on this group but I try to be certain on my IDs. :-)

Well it was an exhibitionist. Thanks!

Thanks Sukanya. When I made the present spotting I already had 2 others that I called Camacinia gigantea. When I did my standard check of the new specimen against "reference" images I noticed a difference that gave me pause. While the position of the pterostigma (the single, colored wing cell) matches, as does the size of the clear cells portion of the wing, the rear wing boundary near where it attaches to the body is a totally different shape! The male (as is mine) has a sharp almost 90 degree corner on that part of the wing (See http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/globalResults.php?Species=1330 and your/the Papua link). Mine doesn't. It's rounded. In addition, my specimens have wider, more rounded wings in general. For these reasons I became suspect of my other two spottings, and I removed the species name from them. And I did not use it (Camacinia gigantea) for the new spotting either. I don't know what they are! :-)

Thanks Jonathan but Neurothemis fluctuans is not on the Papua list of Odonata. In addition in N. fluctuans, the pterostigma touches the red part of the wing. In the specimen in this spotting the pterostigma is surrounded by clear cells, and the area of clear cells is much larger as well.