Charcoal-winged percher
Diplacodes nebulosa
Name means: “misty or dark, probably because of its small black body or black wing tips”
The charcoal-winged percher is a very small and slender dragonfly. The male has a black body and wing tips that look as if they were dipped in charcoal. It likes marshes and ponds full of water plants.
Lives in
Many countries in Asia and northern Australia, at marshes and weedy ponds
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies do not sting and do not bite people.
What does it eat?
It catches tiny flying insects. Its young ones grow up in the water and hunt little water animals.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Charcoal-winged percher about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The male is black all over, with black tips on his wings.
2
The female is yellow and black.
3
A female's wings can be clear, orange near the body, or black-tipped like the male's.
4
It lives in many Asian countries, such as India and Sri Lanka, and also in northern Australia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Charcoal-winged percher
?Why is it called charcoal-winged?
Because the male's wing tips are black, as if they had been dipped in charcoal.
?Where does the charcoal-winged percher live?
At marshes and weedy ponds in many parts of Asia and in northern Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diplacodes nebulosa
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Black-tipped percher, Black-tipped ground skimmer
Where the facts come from
- Diplacodes nebulosa (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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