Diplacodes melanopsis
Black-faced Percher at Murrumbateman, NSW
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| Diplacodes melanopsis | roymcd | 16 Mar 2018 | |
| Diplacodes melanopsis | roymcd | 7 Mar 2018 | |
| Unverified | SallyandPeter | 4 Mar 2018 |
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5 comments
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. :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.067963-34.974536
- Places Murrumbateman, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Mar 2018 04:40 PM Recorded on
- SallyandPeter Recorded by
- On a pumpkin in the vege garden Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- SallyandPeter Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Diplacodes melanopsis Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) Insects
Species information
- Diplacodes melanopsis Scientific name
- Black-faced Percher Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 816.8m Recorded at altitude
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