Scarlet Percher: Male, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Dragonflies (Odonata)

Family:

Skimmer (Epiprocta: Libellulidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Scarlet Percher (Diplacodes haematodes)

This Photo:

🔍Male, dorsal🔎

Thank you Dr Christopher Burwell for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Flinders Ranges and possibly elsewhere
As the name suggests, very bright red males; but not always. The redder specimens have very few black markings compared with Wandering Percher males.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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