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FAMILY LIBELLULIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Scarlet Percher Dragonflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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Male, Body length 35mm
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- The mature male Scarlet Percher has the red eyes, red face, red thorax
and red abdomen. There are no markings on their abdomen. There are also the reddish suffusions on the wing bases.
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  - Female. body length 35mm
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- This female
dragonfly look different form the male. It is pale yellow in colour with black
patterns on abdomen. There are the smoky yellowish-brown areas near the tip
of wings. This is a good example of the sexual
dimorphism among dragonflies.
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- They are common in Brisbane, can be found on all
type of fresh water habitats, but more abundant in fast running rocky
creeks.
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- This
dragonfly likes to perch on creek stone or sand bed, as most other
dragonflies will not do.
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- There is another small red dragonfly
common in Brisbane, the Wandering Percher,
may be confused with them.
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- They lay eggs in tandem, the female dips her end of
abdomen into the water quickly.
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 - Photo : Travis Hargreaves, Perth
- Scarlet Percher is common in Brisbane, Queensland. Our visitor Travis Hargreaves
sent us the about picture and told us that the dragonfly can also be found in
Perth, West Australia. It was photographed in bushland near Helena Valley East of Perth,
early December.
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 - Male Scarlet Percher Dragonfly wings
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- Reference:
- 1. The Australian Dragonflies - CSIRO, Watson, Theisinger &
Abbey,1991, p245.
- 2. A
Field Guide to Dragonflies of South East Queensland - Ric Nattrass,
2006, p90.
- 3. The
Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia - CSIRO, Günther
Theischinger and John Hawking, 2006, p276.
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