Hemicordulia australiae

Australian Emerald at Gungahlin, ACT

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Identification history

	Hemicordulia australiae	20 Mar 2018	HarveyPerkins
	Hemicordulia tau	20 Mar 2018	DerekC

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User's notes

When I first saw this Dragonfly it was on the ground in a death fight with a European Wasp but as I bent to photograph this action the wasp left before I could record this behavior. The dragonfly appeared to recover and climbed on my finger before I placed it on the twig.

2 comments

HarveyPerkins wrote:

21 Mar 2018

Lucky dragonfly. Do you know if it lived to fly off?

DerekC wrote:

21 Mar 2018

It was late evening so it may not have wished to fly. I did not stay for longer than possibly 15 minutes and it did not fly by then. I do not know if it had been stung but my observation of these wasps is that they use their mandibles and bite other insects in two. It may have had a lucky outcome and I put it up off the ground to give it a chance.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.111857 -35.210183
Altitude 637.9m
Maps Gungaderra Grasslands
Places Gungahlin, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
20 Mar 2018 05:27 PM Recorded on
DerekC Recorded by
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Insects Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) Dragonflies (Anisoptera) DerekC Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

50mm or larger Animal size

Species information

Hemicordulia australiae Scientific name
Australian Emerald Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 841.2m Recorded at altitude
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania