Redtail Damselfly - Ceriagrion aeruginosum
FAMILY COENAGRIONIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Redtail Damselflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. They are also known as Big Red Damselflies.
- Male, body length 40mm,
- The Big Red Damselflies are beautiful. Male has the all orange-red abdomen and yellow-green thorax and head. Female is slightly larger, in pale green body colours with dark eyes.
Although they are bright in colour, they are not easily seen. They usually hiding among the grasses near the waters. We found the damselfly once along Moolabin Creek.
Few years later in October, we found the second Big Red Damselfly in Yugarapul Park near Bulimba Creek. It was hiding in dense vegetations.
The damselfly flied slowly and did not care too much on our approaching.
- Wings of Redtail Damselfly
- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger & Abbey,1991, p130.
- 2. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric Nattrass, 2006, p35.
- 3. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006, p88.
