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Austroargiolestes calcaris

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A dark shiny damsel fly about 60mm long with some pale markings on the thorax. The abdomen was dark metallic black, legs black. Pale cream pterostigma.

Habitat:

On a medium sized eucalyptus trunk next to a large lake in a nature reserve.

Notes:

?A calcaris has black eyes mostly on Googimages...

?Austroargiolestes icteromelas Reiner's one has white pterostigma ?? whereas our field guide has black. http://photos.rnr.id.au/2012/11/30/damselfly_Austroargiolestes_icterome…

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PublishedOctober 1, 2013

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