Tropical rockmaster
The tropical rockmaster is a big damselfly from Queensland and New Guinea. The male is bright blue and black with smoky dark wings. Unlike most damselflies, it rests with its wings spread out, so people often mistake it for a dragonfly.
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Fun facts
The female looks quite different. She is mostly brown and yellow-green, with smoky wings.
Its wings are the widest of all the rockmasters, and the back wings are wider than the front ones.
The mother lays her eggs under water on moss and reeds, around November.
The babies are wide and flat, with long gills for breathing under water. They stay there for about a year.
It was first described in 1907 by a young scientist called Robin Tillyard.
Most asked questions about Tropical rockmaster
?Is the tropical rockmaster a dragonfly?
No, it is a damselfly. It just rests with its wings open like a dragonfly does.
?Where does the tropical rockmaster live?
In Queensland in Australia and in Papua New Guinea, near streams and waterfalls.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diphlebia euphoeoides
- Named by
- Tillyard, 1907
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Diphlebia euphoeoides (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 Graham Winterflood. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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