Black-tailed skimmer

Orthetrum cancellatum
Skimmers (Libellulidae)

♂

Black-tailed skimmeron RikenMon's Nature-Guide

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Large dragonfly with a pointed rear end, black legs, bright wings with some black markings. The ♂ has a brown hairy breast and blue-black tipped rear, young ♂ still have yellow markings at the side of the rear. The ♀ is yellow with black vertical stripes on the rear, becoming more brownish with age, with a blue shine on the stripes. The markings are distinctive.

Likes to sunbathe on rocks or footpaths along still or slow-flowing water with vegetation-free banks. 

⇔ l. 30-35 mm

LA:
≈ The ♂ LIBELLULA DEPRESSA (Broad-bodied Chaser) has a wider rear with less black and a coloured wing base. 
≈ The LIBELLULA FULVA (Scarce chaser) has yellow wing veins and black wing tips.

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