Beautiful demoiselle

Calopteryx virgo
Broad-winged damselflies (Calopterygidae)

♂, in final colours.
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Large dark blue-green damselfly with wide wings. 

The ♂ wings with many veins are metal shiny green-blueish without wing marking. At the bottom rear end a dark red "tail light". The ♀ has green to brown translucent wings with green front veins and a small white marking ((Pterostigma). Young can have brown-orange wings that, when on each other lose the translucency until they get their final colours.

It prefers shadow rich banks with some water flow in woodland, farmland settings.
 
⇔ l. 45-49 mm

The presence of the wing marking and the colour of veins is a good indication of the gender. Wing veins green is ♀ and blue is ♂. There are many subspecies with a different colouring of body and wings.  

LA:
≈ Very similar to the CALOPTERYX SPLENDENS (Banded demoiselle) that has the wing base and tips translucent. 
≈ The MNAIS COSTALIS has orange wings like the young Beautiful demoiselle but with a translucent base and is only present in East Asia. No picture available

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