Size: Male: Abdomen: 21-26mm, Hind wing: 27-32mm Female: Abdomen: 20-24mm, Hind wing: 26-32mm. The Fulvous forest skimmer (Neurothemis fulvia) is a medium, sized rusty dragonfly with transparent wing tips. Male is reddish brown where as the female is paler brown in color. Male has a reddish brown face with eyes which are dark reddish brown above, golden brown below. Thorax, abdomen and legs are reddish brown. Wings are dark reddish brown with an irregular triangular transparent area at the tip of the wing. The wing spots are dark reddish brown. Many forms of females are found. Color of head, thorax and abdomen paler than males or rusty brown. Wings are clear amber yellow with a dark ray extending to the tip in fore wing. Many of them have an irregular triangular transparent area at the tip of the wing. The wings vary in size, shape, width and coloration. Skimmers are the most diverse group of odonates. They are large, medium or small dragonflies and non-iridecently colored. Eyes are always broadly confluent. Habitat: It is a dragonfly of wet forests. Usually perches on fallen logs and shrubs. A large number of them can be found together in canopy gaps and forest edges. However, during the wet season, they move out of forested areas to non-forested bits. Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurothemis_fulvia
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:44:26 +0000
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