Wandering Ringtail

Austrolestes leda · Order: Odonata · Family: Lestidae

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Wandering Ringtail
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA

The wandering ringtail is a medium-sized to large damselfly. Males show a light blue and black coloration. It lives in slow or still waters across eastern Australia and is native to that region.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males are light blue and black.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

It is a medium-sized to large damselfly.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It inhabits slow and still water in eastern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is an Australian species.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Wandering Ringtail photo 3
Photo: unknown, CC0
Wandering Ringtail photo 4
Photo: Rod Lowther, CC BY
Wandering Ringtail photo 5
Photo: Peter Crowcroft, CC BY
Wandering Ringtail photo 6
Photo: unknown, CC0

Same family (Lestidae)

Western Willow SpreadwingWestern Willow SpreadwingChalcolestes viridisSlender SpreadwingSlender SpreadwingLestes rectangularisCommon Winter DamselflyCommon Winter DamselflySympecma fuscaCommon SpreadwingCommon SpreadwingLestes sponsaGreat SpreadwingGreat SpreadwingArchilestes grandisSpotted SpreadwingSpotted SpreadwingLestes congener

Sources

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

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

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