Bug FAQBlack-tipped Forest glory
Vestalis apicalis · Order: Odonata · Family: Calopterygidae
The Black-tipped Forest glory is a large damselfly with a metallic emerald-green body and brown-capped yellow-green eyes. Its wings end in broad dark brown tips, and females look similar but with duller, paler markings. It breeds in forest streams, often rests in groups among bushes on forest paths and in shade, and is found in India and Sri Lanka.
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How to recognize it
The tips of all wings are broadly dark brown. Females look like males but have duller colors and paler, less sharply defined wing-tip markings.
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Size
It is a large damselfly with a metallic emerald-green body and brown-capped yellow-green eyes.
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Where it lives
It breeds in forest streams. Adults are often seen resting in groups among bushes on forest paths and in shade.
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Where it comes from
It occurs in India and Sri Lanka.
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Lookalikes
It is commonly found together with the similar species Vestalis gracilis.
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Questions people ask
What does this damselfly look like?
It is a large metallic emerald-green damselfly with brown-capped yellow-green eyes, and its wings end in broad dark brown tips; females are duller with paler wing-tip markings.
Source: Wikipedia
Same family (Calopterygidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestalis_apicalis
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