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Blue featherleg

Platycnemis pennipes

Photo by Alex C.
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Field Notes

Description:

Female, about 32 millimetres long. Mature adults differ from most other blue damselflies in having expanded white edges to the tibiae, paired black markings down most of the abdomen, broad pale brown double antehumeral stripes, wider head and a pale brown pterostigmata

Habitat:

On vegetation nearby a riverbank. Slow-flowing lowland river.

Notes:

There were tones of them nearby, males and females.

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