L-spot Basker

Aethriamanta nymphaeae · Order: Odonata · Family: Libellulidae

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L-spot Basker
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA

The L-spot basker shows a dark brown fleck between the fourth and fifth wing veins and a small dark patch forming an L shape on the wing. It lives around lagoons, ponds and swamps in northern Australia. It looks very similar to the square-spot basker and can be hard to tell apart.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

A dark brown fleck between veins Cu and A and a right-angled dark patch on a few cells create an L-shaped mark.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

Found in lagoons, ponds and swamps across northern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is northern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

It is very similar to the square-spot basker (Aethriamanta circumsignata) and can be difficult to separate.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Libellulidae)

Blue DasherBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisEastern PondhawkEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisCommon WhitetailCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaWidow SkimmerWidow SkimmerLibellula luctuosaAutumn MeadowhawkAutumn MeadowhawkSympetrum vicinumCommon DarterCommon DarterSympetrum striolatum

Sources

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

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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.

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