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FAMILY COENAGRIONIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Redtail Damselflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
They are also known as Big Red
Damselflies.
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 - Body length 40mm,
- The Big Red Damselflies are beautiful. Male has the all orange-red abdomen and yellow-green thorax and head. Female
is slightly larger, in pale green to pale red body colours with dark eyes.
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- On early winter Jun 2009, we found this mating pair in Carbrook wetlands. The
damselflies flied slowly and did not care too much on our approaching.
Male
 
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- Although they are bright in colour, they are not easily
seen. They usually hiding among the grasses near the waters. We found the damselfly
once along Moolabin Creek on 2002.
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- Few years later in October 2005, we found the second Big Red Damselfly in Yugarapul Park near
Bulimba Creek. It was hiding in dense vegetations.
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Female
 
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- On Mar 2011, we found this immature male in Carbrook wetland. Its abdomen
was still in pale brown colour, not changed into bright red yet.
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 - Wings of Redtail Damselfly
- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger &
Abbey,1991, p130.
- 2. A
Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric Nattrass,
2006, p35.
- 3. The
Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther
Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006, p88.
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