Broad-bodied chaser or darter, Libellula depressa.

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Broad-bodied chaser or darter, Libellula depressa. Formerly the depressed libellula. Flying adult, adult emerging from the nymph, and nymph. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1801.

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