Black-tipped forest glory
The black-tipped forest glory is a large damselfly that shines metallic emerald green. Its eyes are yellowish green with a brown cap on top. The tips of all four wings look as if they were dipped in dark brown ink.
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Fun facts
The female looks like the male, but her colours are duller and her dark wing tips are paler.
It likes to rest in groups among bushes along shady forest paths, sometimes together with a cousin species.
In India it is common by the hill streams of the Western Ghats mountains.
The ones living in Sri Lanka are a bit different and count as their own subspecies.
Most asked questions about Black-tipped forest glory
?Where does the black-tipped forest glory live?
In India and Sri Lanka, near streams in the forest.
?Is the black-tipped forest glory dangerous?
No. Damselflies have no sting and are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vestalis apicalis
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Calopterygidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Calopterygidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Vestalis apicalis (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 Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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