Blue Skimmer at Moncrieff, ACT
Identification history
| Orthetrum caledonicum | 10 Jan 2017 | HarveyPerkins | ||
| Orthetrum caledonicum | 10 Jan 2017 | GeoffRobertson |
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4 comments
GeoffRobertson
wrote:
11 Jan 2017
Kim Pullen & Roger Farrow, I notice that other records for Blue Skimmers show yellow individuals. Any comment please? GeoffR
KimPullen
wrote:
13 Jan 2017
Hi Geoff. Only mature male Blue Skimmers are really blue. Both males and females are yellow with dark markings when freshly emerged (teneral); the males progressively turn powdery blue, and the females just take on a bluish tinge.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.116248-35.167136
- Places Moncrieff, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 7 Jan 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
- GeoffRobertson Recorded by
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Insects Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) GeoffRobertson Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Orthetrum caledonicum Scientific name
- Blue Skimmer Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1529.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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