Common Bluetail Damselfly at Monash, ACT
Identification history
| Ischnura heterosticta | 9 Dec 2021 | HarveyPerkins | ||
| Ischnura heterosticta | 9 Dec 2021 | AndyRoo |
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User's notes
Didn't realise it had prey when I took the pic. Is the pic good enough to ID what it might be for it's own sighting?
2 comments
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
9 Dec 2021
The prey looks like a chironomid (Diptera, Chironomidae), but that's as far as it could be ID'd.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.081077-35.420430
- Altitude 592.0m
- Maps Monash Grassland Isabella Pond Tuggeranong Creek to Monash Grassland
- Places Monash, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Nov 2021 04:22 PM Recorded on
- AndyRoo Recorded by
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Collections
AndyRoo Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Ischnura heterosticta Damselflies (Zygoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) Insects
Additional information
- Lomandra multiflora subsp. multiflora Associated plant
- Cannot identify? Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Ischnura heterosticta Scientific name
- Common Bluetail Damselfly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1358.7m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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