Anisoptera (suborder)

Unidentified dragonfly at Copmanhurst, NSW

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Anisoptera (suborder) KorinneM 24 May 2025
Unverified MazzV 21 May 2025

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I acknowledge the photos here are poor, with apologies; Assuming they are the same species, I managed slightly better photos for sighting 4670130. I suspect this may be the female of the species at sighting 4670126, which I’ve seen mating with a dragonfly like the one of this sighting. This has a dull red-orange coloured abdomen and the head and thorax are a similar bronze-brown to that of sighting 4670130.

3 comments

   24 May 2025
Possibly a Fiery Skimmer, but photos aren't good enough to confirm.
   3 Jun 2025
Thanks for the extra info, @KorinneM, not great pix, I agree! Cheers,

MazzV
   19 Jun 2025
It does look like a male Fiery Skimmer.

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