Scarlet Percher at Forde, ACT
Identification history
| Diplacodes haematodes | 13 Apr 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Diplacodes haematodes | 27 Feb 2019 | HarveyPerkins | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Feb 2019 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Is this a newly emerged adult? By body shape, possibly a male Blue Skimmer?
1 comment
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
27 Feb 2019
Yes - it is a VERY newly emerged adult. Which makes it VERY difficult to ID, especially from photos. The colour is not developed and the body shape is still evolving. Nevertheless, it doesn't look like a Blue Skimmer to me and I suspect it is more likely one of the Perchers, probably a Scarlet Percher. This is based on the current state of the two-tone colouration of the eyes, the beginning of body colour (particularly on the thorax), the thickness of the abdomen, and to a minor degree on the wing venation.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.154992-35.167283
- Altitude 644.2m
- Maps Mulligans Flat
- Places Forde, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Feb 2019 12:07 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Insects Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) Dragonflies (Anisoptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Diplacodes haematodes Scientific name
- Scarlet Percher Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 983m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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