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FAMILY LIBELLULIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Red Arrow Dragonflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Male, body length 40mm
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- This red dragonfly is easily confused with Fiery
Skimmer. They are about the same size and same colours. They fly and
perch about the same style. Only the shape of the abdomen tells the
different. Fiery Skimmer has the spindle shape abdomen while Red Arrow has
the straight long triangle like an arrow head. There is the orange smoky triangular
suffusion at the hindwing base.
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- We found this dragonfly the first time in the Lagoon in Karawatha Forest
Feb 2008. We may saw them before but we may confused with other red
dragonflies.
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- Female is orange in colour, but we did not found one
yet.
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- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger & Abbey,1991,
p254.
- 2. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric
Nattrass, 2006, p103.
- 3. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006,
p283.
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