Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo

Species Information
Length: 45mm. The male has a metallic blue body with dark wings, where as the female has metallic green-bronze body with translucent pale brown wings.

Seen April to September, and mainly found along streams and rivers, particularly those with sand or gravel bottoms. Locally abundant.

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Insecta (Insects)
Odonata (Dragonflies & Damselflies)
Zygoptera (Damselflies)
Calopterygidae (Demoiselle Damselflies)
Calopteryx
Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Photographs

Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo male
May 2019. Male discovered on local river,
South Staffordshire.
Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo
May 2019. Male discovered on local river,
South Staffordshire.
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) female
June 2011. Female discovered on local river,
South Staffordshire.

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