Quick IdentificationBeautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)
Male Beautiful Demoiselle
Quick ID Guide
Welcome to my quick identification guide of the Beautiful Demoiselle.
These graphics are meant as a guide to the key identifying features of both the male and the female dragonflies.
The text section has been kindly written & supplied by Mr Ken Crick.
For a more complete species description, follow the link below to the Beautiful Demoiselle narrative.
The body is metallic blue / green; the wings veneration is very strong in both sexes. The wing pigmentation diminishes at the root and occasionally at the tip. The wing colour varies with the amount of available sun light from iridescent blue to dark black / brown.
Female Beautiful Demoiselle
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All of the images and graphics are by Chris Brooks.
Metallic green head, thorax and abdomen which suffuses to bronze from segment 7 to 10. Almost at the tip of each wings leading edge is an elongated single but distinctive white cell known as the pseudo-pterostigma, some what more elongated than that of C splendens. The colour of the rest of the wing is a dark iridescent bronze.
Chris Brooks Photography
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