The Dusky Lilysquatter is a pond damselfly of East and South Asia that you won't find in the wild in the United States. Males have a black back with a bright blue tail tip, and they like to rest flat on floating leaves such as lotus pads.
Appearance
- Appearance
- A medium-sized damselfly. Males have yellowish-green eyes capped with brown, a black upper thorax, and a blue abdomen with broad black markings on top as far as , so mostly the tip looks blue. Older males get a bluish-white powdery coating that hides their markings.
- Seasonal forms
- Females are duller, with greenish-yellow sides on the abdomen; older females also become powdery.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Weedy ponds
- Still water with floating plants
- Range
- It lives widely across East Asia and south to India and Indonesia, including the southern Russian Far East, Korea, Japan, and China. It does not live in North America.
- Preferred conditions
- It prefers stagnant, weedy ponds and often perches flat on floating grasses and lotus leaves.
Life cycle
- Reproduction
- Eggs are laid deep inside the curled-up rim of a lotus leaf or other floating plants.
Conservation
- IUCN Red List
- LCLeast ConcernLow risk of extinction
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