Lestes sponsa
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Lestes sponsa is a damselfly with a wide Palaearctic distribution. It is known commonly as the emerald damselfly or common spreadwing. Both males and females have a metallic green colour and brown win
Emerald damselfly male 3
Emerald damselfly female
Lestes sponsa male with powder blue segments 1–2 and 9–10 and blue eyes
Lestes sponsa female
Lestidae
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Lestidae is a family of cosmopolitan, medium-sized to large, slender damselflies, known commonly as the spreadwings, spread-winged damselflies, or reedlings.
Lestes sponsa
…not fly very far away, landing on another perch a few yards away. Their habit of perching with their wings half open is characteristic of the family Lestidae and gives rise to their other common name of spreadwings. A population can consist of several hundred insects. L. sponsa mate in the usual dragonfly…
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A male Lestes dryas in the "spread-winged" posture that gives the family its common name
SPREADWING, GREAT pena blanca lake, scc, az 01
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