Southern Evening Darner (Telephlebia brevicauda)

Quite a large dragonfly with distinctive markings through the wings.
Head, thorax and abdomen have brown and caramel colours.
Resting on a dried leaf near ground level in a local nature reserve.

comments (2)

RMFelix

Lion

!!Splendid. It appears that it has a very close range of distribution, am I right?
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:53bdb3b8-3205-43c8-bf60-3fee6afdbbdc#
Familiy Telephlebiidae* Only in Jungle Dragon ;)
Great capture, for sure, cheers

Posted 9 years ago
1. Mark Ridgway
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks! :)
  Sorry I don't have better pics of this one but it was very big, only just holding that leaf, and I was carefully trying to hold branches away with the other hand.
  Yes quite a tight range.. it obviously likes hills and water.. both scarce in Australia :) Posted 9 years ago