Sapphire
Rockmaster
Damselfly - Diphlebia coerulescens
FAMILY Diphlebiidae
- Body length 50mm, male
This page contains information and pictures about Sapphire Rockmaster Damselflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
Sapphire Rockmasters are large, thick body and rest with wings spread, much look like the dragonflies.
The Rockmaster Damselflies have black head, black striped bright blue colour thorax, blue ringed black abdomen and blue light tail. Their anal appendages are black in colour. Their wings are dark brown with colourless wings base.
Our Australian Dragonfly Society Secretary, Ric Nattrass told us that we can easily find the Rockmasters on Northbrook Creek near Lake Wivenhoe. We went there and found those beautiful animal.
They likes to perch on the vegetations about a meter over the running water. When we went near them, they flied away while we were still two meters away. They flied to a higher position and keep watching at us. They returned to the same spot after we went away.
- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger & Abbey,1991, p170.
- 2. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric Nattrass, 2006, p42.
- 3. The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006, p18.
