Black-faced Percher at Murrumbateman, NSW
Identification history
| Diplacodes melanopsis | 16 Mar 2018 | roymcd | ||
| Diplacodes melanopsis | 7 Mar 2018 | roymcd | ||
| Unidentified | 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.
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
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Insects Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) SallyandPeter
Additional information
- On a pumpkin in the vege garden Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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
- Machine learning
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