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Orthetrum sabina
FAMILY
LIBELLULIDAE
- This page contains information for about Slender Skimmers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 50mm
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- Slender Skimmer is yellow to greenish yellow in colour, with black
markings. There are the yellow and black strips on the body sides and brown
spot at base of hindwings. Male and female look the same. As its common
name implied, its body is slender.
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- In mid summer, after a weeks of heavy rain, there were many temporary small
ponds formed in Karawatha Forest. We saw some of these Slender Skimmers
flying around those shallow ponds.
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- The dragonfly in the about 3rd photo just captured a Blue
Butterfly.
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- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger & Abbey,1991,
p250.
- 2. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric
Nattrass, 2006, p100.
- 3. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006,
p268.
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