Western Golden Dartlet

Ischnura rubilio · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

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Western Golden Dartlet
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The Western Golden Dartlet is a small damselfly with an apple-green body, black thoracic stripes, olive-green eyes capped in black, and a tail that is yellow with a blue tip. Its distribution includes the Indian subcontinent and Iran.

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How to recognize it

The thorax is bronzed black on top with narrow olive-green stripes, the sides are pale olive-green, wing spots are rose-red near the base and clear at the tips, and the abdomen is rusty-yellow except the last three segments which are azure blue.

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Size

It is a small apple-green damselfly.

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Where it comes from

It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Iran.

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Lookalikes

It was once considered a subspecies of Ischnura aurora, but DNA and morphological differences separate the Asian forms from Pacific ones.

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More photos

Western Golden Dartlet photo 3
Photo: sunnyjosef, CC BY

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

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Sources

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

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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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