Grenadier
The grenadier is a colourful dragonfly from Asia and Australia. The male has a shiny green chest with yellow spots and a red tail with a black tip. It likes swampy places.
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The male is 37 to 41 millimetres long, and each back wing is about 3 centimetres long.
Its eyes are brown and yellow.
The female has the same pattern as the male, but her tail is a duller colour.
It is happy to live in swamps that people have changed or disturbed.
It is common in most of the places where it lives, from Japan to Australia.
Most asked questions about Grenadier
?Where does the grenadier dragonfly live?
In eastern Asia and Oceania, from Japan to Australia.
?How big is the grenadier?
The male is about 37 to 41 mm long.
?What does the name insignis mean?
It is Latin for remarkable, because of the narrow base of its back wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agrionoptera insignis
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Agrionoptera insignis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Bill Higham. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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