Eastern Billabongfly

Austroagrion watsoni · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

Also called: Eastern Dart

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Eastern Billabongfly
Photo: Rolf Lawrenz, CC BY

Eastern billabongflies are tiny damselflies about an inch long. They live near slow or still water such as ponds, lakes and ditches across northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Females are pale blue to gray-green with a contrasting bright green stripe on the side.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

They measure about 25 mm (1 inch) in length.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

They are found near slow-running or still water like lakes, ponds and ditches. They rest on plants at the water’s edge, very close to the surface.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Their range includes northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

They look similar to common bluetails and blue riverdamsels but are smaller and have a blue bar behind the eyes, green side stripe, and black squares at the tail tips.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Eastern Billabongfly photo 3
Photo: Rolf Lawrenz, CC BY

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_billabongfly

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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