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Help with Singapore Dragonflies (1 Viewer)

Androsnick

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These are 3 shots of the same dragonfly, taken in Singapore in early October. Searching the internet has proved quite difficult as some have been incorrectly labelled. You can find something looking very similar to the photos attached but can't be sure that the allocated species name is correct. [A further search of the name given gives widely different photos - for example I found a photo which was labelled Wandering Glider - Pantala flavescens looking very similar, but searching Pantala flavescens then gave many photos which appear quite different, making me wonder if the dragonfly in the photo had been correctly identified - (not talking male vs female here!)
Any help would be appreciated, thank you
I have a couple of species I'd like to ID but I'll do them separately.
 

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Perhaps female Crocothemis servilia. Not a species I've seen but it looks very similar to fresh C.erythraea females that I've seen in europe.
 
Perhaps female Crocothemis servilia. Not a species I've seen but it looks very similar to fresh C.erythraea females that I've seen in europe.
Thanks Paul, that certainly looks like a good candidate (at least the majority of the internet photos look very similar), so I will leave it open for a while but this certainly looks good (that may also answer the next ID question I had, which now looks v similar to a male Crocothemis servilia!) Cheers
 
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