Quick Identification Guide

 
Welcome to my quick identification guide to the stunning Banded Demoiselle. These graphics are meant as a guide to the key identifying features of both the male and the female damselflies.

The text section has been kindly written and supplied by Mr Ken Crick.

The male Banded Demoiselle

The males body can be metallic blue or green or a combination of both colours, which seems to be dependent on the time of year and location. The wings veneration is strong but more obvious in the pigmented band reminiscent of an inky thumb print. The wing lacks pigmentation from the root to the nodus and at the tip.

The female Banded Demoiselle

The females wings are tinted green throughout. Almost at the wing tips on the wings leading edge is a slightly elongated single but distinctive white cell known as the pseudo-pterostigma. The abdomen and thorax are metallic bronze / green with the most obvious bronzing occurring at each end of the abdomen.