Dragonflies & DamselfliesDragonfly or Damselfly? Sex Lives and Dragonflies Damselflies Diplacodes haematodes Diplacodes melanopsis (Black-faced Percher) Hemicordulia tau Orthetrum caledonicum Orthetrum migratum Orthetrum villosovittatum
Commonly known as the Black-faced Percher or Blackfaced Percher, the species Diplacodes melanopsis is a small dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. They are found on the Australian mainland from Brisbane to the South Australian-Victorian border.
The Diplacodes melanopsis mature males have a black face and front of its body, and a red abdomen with black markings; whilst the females are amber and yellow with black markings.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Odonata
- Suborder: Anisoptera
- Superfamily: Libelluloidea
- Family: Libellulidae
- Genus: Diplacodes
- Species: Diplacodes melanopsis
Footnote & References
- Black-faced Percher (Diplacodes melanopsis), debtaylor142, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=323677&user_id=debtaylor142&verifiable=any&view=species
- Black-faced Percher (Diplacodes melanopsis), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/323677-Diplacodes-melanopsis
- Diplacodes melanopsis (Martin, 1901), Blackfaced Percher Dragonfly, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/60eaaf5a-a3a8-4f73-ba81-ec1f49fb753b
Dragonflies & DamselfliesDragonfly or Damselfly? Sex Lives and Dragonflies Damselflies Diplacodes haematodes Diplacodes melanopsis (Black-faced Percher) Hemicordulia tau Orthetrum caledonicum Orthetrum migratum Orthetrum villosovittatum
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