Dragonflies, SW Romania, June 2021 (1 Viewer)

[mi-d]

Hello,
can you please help ID these dragonflies? All pictures are taken in SW Romania in May and June 2021.

 

[aeshna5]

1 White-tailed Skimmer
2 Azure Damselfly
3 Black-tailed Skimmer
4 Red-veined Darter
5 Beautiful Demoiselle

 

[mi-d]

Thank you for this fast answer !

 

[pdwinter]

I would have put #3 down as male Othetrum albistylum White-tailed Skimmer

 

[aeshna5]

I would have put #3 down as male Othetrum albistylum White-tailed Skimmer

You could be right- I did think it might have been but wasn't 100% sure. I thought the pale face was pro that ID, but those I've seen had more conspicuous white cerci.

 

[pdwinter]

You could be right- I did think it might have been but wasn't 100% sure. I thought the pale face was pro that ID, but those I've seen had more conspicuous white cerci.

I wouldn't wager a lot of my money on the ID but the well marked pale panel on the side of the thorax in an old individual as well as some white at the tips of the appendages and broadish pterostigmas swayed me to White-tailed.