Western golden dartlet
The western golden dartlet is a small apple green damselfly with a yellow tail that has a bright blue tip. It has olive green eyes with black caps on top. It flits around weedy ponds, lakes and marshes.
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Fun facts
The spots on its front wings are rose red on one half and see-through on the other.
The female is sturdier and less colourful than the male.
For a long time it was thought to be the same as a damselfly from Australia, until scientists found big differences in their DNA.
It lays its eggs in weedy ponds, lakes and marshes.
Most asked questions about Western golden dartlet
?What colour is the western golden dartlet?
Apple green with black stripes, a yellowish tail and a bright blue tip.
?Where does the western golden dartlet live?
In India, the countries around it and Iran, near weedy water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ischnura rubilio
- Named by
- Selys, 1876
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ischnura rubilio (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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