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Quick Identification Guide
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)
Welcome to my quick identification guide to the striking Beautiful 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 Beautiful Demoiselle
The males 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.
The female Beautiful Demoiselle
The female (above) has a 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.
A Quick ID Guide
For a more complete species description, follow the link below to the narrative of this Demoiselle.
Alternatively follow the link to the main species page.
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