Bug FAQForest Darner
Austroaeschna pulchra · Order: Odonata · Family: Aeshnidae
The forest darner is a large dragonfly belonging to the Aeshnidae family. Males are dark brown to black with yellow, green or blue markings, while females are brown with yellow markings, and they live along streams and rivers in eastern Australia from Brisbane to Victoria.
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How to recognize it
Males have a dark body with yellow, green or blue spots; females are brown with yellow spots.
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Size
It is a species of large dragonfly.
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Where it lives
It lives in streams and rivers in eastern Australia.
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Where it comes from
Its range extends from around Brisbane down to Victoria in eastern Australia.
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Lookalikes
It looks similar to the Carnarvon darner (Austroaeschna muelleri).
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More photos
Same family (Aeshnidae)
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Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroaeschna_pulchra
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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.