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Pyrrhosoma Nymphula - Large Red Damselfly

Description

Length: 36mm

 

A large, active, deep red damselfly with black legs and a bronze-black top to the thorax which has broad red or yellow stripes. The female exists in several colour forms varying in the amount of red and black on the abdomen from nearly all black in f. melanotum to mainly red in f. fulvipes. The pterostigma is black. This is one of the earliest species to appear each spring.

 

Habitat

Can be found in almost any freshwater habitat but rarely on fast-flowing rivers or streams.

 

 

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Uploaded on April 17, 2011
Taken on April 17, 2011