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Dragonfly - Unknown species
Cristian Mihai

Dragonfly - Unknown species (?)

Location
vcaresti Marsh, Bucharest, Romania
Date taken
May 7th, 2008
Scientific name
?
Equipment used
Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Beautiful shot, Cristian. I put this to a Finnish insect forum and got an answer.

"Some Orthetrum it is. Young male that hasnt yet got the typical blue colouring of an adult male. Could be a Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens) but on the other hand quite black looking wing spots, Black-Tailed Skimmer, O. cancellatum? ..."
 
More commenting:

"Very colourful, even if its very newly born. My eyes can see wrong but the "tail appendages" (dont really know what they are in English) seem to be white. In that case it would be Orthetrum albistylum.

The answer was given by J.Koskinen who knows dragonflies well.
 

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