David Element

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________ Dragonflies and Damselflies 13 -

Beautiful Demoiselles, Banded Demoiselles

                        BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE Calopteryx virgo (f)

                        BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE Calopteryx virgo (f)

                        BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE Calopteryx virgo (f)

                        BANDED DEMOISELLE Calopteryx splendens (f)

• More illustrations of Demoiselles - the first three photographs show female Beautiful Demoiselles from England and France and the final picture is of a female Banded Demoiselle for comparison. Note the brownish, slightly broader wings of the former and the clear wing membranes of the latter species, seen to good effect in the photographs illustrating the characteristic wing-flapping displays of these insects. See Dragonflies and Damselflies 1, Dragonflies and Damselflies 7 , Dragonflies and Damselflies 15, Wildlife of the Wandle Corridor 1 - Insects for more photographs of Banded Demoiselles and Dragonflies and Damselflies 26 for comparative illustrations of the related Copper Demoiselle Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (which is absent from the UK).

Links to 'ARKive' species accounts:

• For further information about the Banded Demoiselle use the following link: http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Calopteryx_splendens/

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