Blue Dasher

It has a white face and the top of the frons is metallic blue in mature individuals of both sexes. The eyes are brilliant blue or green in males and reddish-brown in females. The front of the thorax is brown with a thin pale carina medially and a wider pale stripe on either side. The sides are pale green with three full-length brown stripes. The wings are typically clear but may be flavescent and have a dark brown stripe on either side of the midbasal space in males. The legs a re black and heavily armed. The abdomen is black with a pair of pale yellow stripes dorsally, interrupted on segments 3-8 to appear as dashes. Segment 9 and the caudal appendages are black, while 10 is pale. The abdomen is considerably shorter than in females. Older males develop a pale pruinose blue color dorsally and more slowly laterally on the thorax and over the entire abdomen. Females become pruinose, but much more slowly than males.