Diplacodes melanopsis

Black-faced Percher at Wodonga

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Identification history

Diplacodes melanopsis	8 Nov 2020	HarveyPerkins
Diplacodes melanopsis	8 Nov 2020	HarveyPerkins
Unidentified	8 Nov 2020	KylieWaldon

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I struggled to get this smaller dragonfly in focus. It was half the size of the red ones and blended in easier in the grass. It was kind of gold and green.

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HarveyPerkins wrote:

8 Nov 2020

This is a female. The males and females of the Black-faced Percher are similar sized. Not sure whether you were seeing some other species when you suggest the "red ones" were twice the size (cf record 4355783)

KylieWaldon wrote:

8 Nov 2020

Thanks Harvey. Yes I meant a different species - the Wandering Perchers (if that's what the red ones I took also at same sight turn out to be. They were just bigger than I've seen them up to now and easier to get in focus than these ones!).

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Sighting information

4 Abundance
8 Nov 2020 08:45 AM Recorded on
KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Insects Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

Species information

Diplacodes melanopsis Scientific name
Black-faced Percher Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 816.8m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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