Juvenile Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans, Coenagrionidae, Odonata.

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Juvenile Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans, Coenagrionidae, Odonata. The Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans, is a European damselfly. Adult male Blue-tailed Damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. They have a largely black abdomen with very narrow pale markings where each segment joins the next. Segment eight, however, is entirely pale blue. Female Blue-tailed Damselflies come in a variety of colour forms, including a pink form, a violet form and a pale green form. Purple/ violet, pink and green forms are juvenile, with the colour darkening as the damselfly ages. Mature female damselflies are usually brown/ green, or blue which is an andromorph form.

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Location: UK
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