Insects
Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata)
Dragonflies (Anisoptera)
Sighting 3392314

Diplacodes melanopsis

Black-faced Percher at Murrumbateman, NSW

Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
Diplacodes melanopsis at Murrumbateman, NSW - 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM
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Diplacodes melanopsis 16 Mar 2018 roymcd
Diplacodes melanopsis 7 Mar 2018 roymcd
Unverified 4 Mar 2018 SallyandPeter

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5 comments

roymcd wrote:
   16 Mar 2018
I'm happy to call this a Black-faced Percher unless Dr. Perkins thinks otherwise. We havn't had many sightings on CNM so a nice sighting. :-)
HarveyPerkins wrote:
   17 Mar 2018
Yes - a female, and a quite brightly coloured one at that. They are much less common than the other two local Perchers. I have only 9 records of this species from the ACT from the past three and a half years, from 8 locations. They are widespread but have a strong preference for heavily vegetated swamps or swampy dams.
HarveyPerkins wrote:
   17 Mar 2018
Peter - it looks like your's might have been in the vege patch, which is interesting in itself. I've only ever seen them closely connected with water.
SallyandPeter wrote:
   18 Mar 2018
Thanks Roy and Harvey, it was in the vege patch and the dams we have are all about 100m away and non I would call heavily vegetated or swampy. They are normal farm dams.
HarveyPerkins wrote:
   18 Mar 2018
Thanks for that further information, Peter. It's always possible she was moving between sites... Lot's of room for speculation will little chance of any real answers.

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  • On a pumpkin in the vege garden Associated plant
  • 5mm to 12mm Animal size

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