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Orange Featherleg
Platycnemis acutipennis
Platycnemis acutipennis, known as the Orange Featherleg or the Orange White-legged Damselfly, is a species of damselfly in the family Platycnemididae.
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Description
Platycnemis acutipennis is the only European damselfly which combines an orange-red abdomen and blue eyes. The male has moderately wide hind tibias (wider in both P. pennipes and P. latipes; and the males of both those species have blue abdomens). The thorax is buff-coloured with black stripes. There is an orange spot near the tip of each wing. The sexes are similar.
Range & habitat
Platycnemis acutipennis is common and widely distributed across the southwest of Europe including Portugal, Spain, and France; it is endemic to that area. There are however some recent records from Germany.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Platycnemis acutipennis lives in fresh water, either still or up to moderately fast-flowing.
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 109639.