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These damselflies can easily be confused with small red damselflies, but the latter has orange legs, while the large red damselfly has black legs. In Greece and Albania a closely related species occurs, the Greek red damsel (Pyrrhosoma elisabethae). They look very much the same, the females only having a slightly different pronotum with deep ...
Pyrrhosoma elisabethae, the Greek red damselfly, is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. The damselfly finds its habitat in rivers.
Pyrrhosoma elisabethae Schmidt, 1948 – Greek red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula ( Sulzer , 1776) – large red damselfly Former congeners Pyrrhosoma latiloba Yu, Yang & Bu, 2008 and P. tinctipenne (McLachlan, 1894) are now placed in genus Huosoma Guan, Dumont, Yu, Han & Vierstraete, 2013 .
Damselflies have formed subjects for personal jewellery such as brooches since at least 1880. [68] Damselfly is a 2005 short film directed by Ben O'Connor. [69] Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71]
There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Britain, made up of 21 damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera). Of these, 42 species (17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies) are resident breeders, and the remainder are either extinct species, or vagrants - in respect of the latter, this list follows the decisions of the Odonata Records Committee.
Calopterygidae is a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. [2] They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, [3] demoiselles, or jewelwings. [4] These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the ...
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Adults are exceptionally large for damselflies, with wingspans as high as 19 cm (7.5 in.) reported for Megaloprepus [6] and body length up to 13 cm (5.1 in.) for Pseudostigma aberrans. [7] The pterostigma —a thickened, pigmented cell found on the leading edge of the wing in other odonates —is either missing or else modified into a ...