Orthetrum icteromelas

Spectacled Skimmer

More information on this species

Photographer/Source: G Diedericks - Photo from the Virtual Museum of the Odonata Atlas of Southern Africa, photo credit: G Diedericks

Features

body all blue, darker shoulder stripe on thorax (male)

front of head looks spectacled (male)

pterostigmas yellowish brown, dark brown at the front

yellowish brown body with dark stripe along top of abdomen (female)