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Ceriagrion tenellum
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Ceriagrion tenellum fresh young male / Koraaljuffer vers jong mannetje / Späte Adonisjungfer männchen(syn. Scharlachlibelle, zarte Rubinjungfer) / l'Agrion délicat mâle.
Arthropoda - Insecta - Odonata - Zygoptera– Coenagrionidae.
Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villiers, 1789)
Small Red Damselfly.
Adults. Adult body about 27–31–34 mm long. Average wingspan 36 mm; hindwings 15–21 mm long.
The eyes lateral and widely separated; brown to red (reddish brown). In this very young stage whitish.
Legs pale pale red. Thoracic antehumeral stripes present (usually, in the female), or absent; when present, yellow (-ish, and slender). The wings held vertically in repose; similar in shape and venation; petiolate; unpatterned and clear. The inner wing venation blackish. Discoidal cell a simple quadrilateral, not longitudinally divided (trapezoid, without transverse veinlets). The wings exhibiting 3 psqs cells between the quadrilateral cell and the subnodus. Antenodal veins in the forewings 2. Pterostigma reddish brown, or red. The hindwings with only one row of cells distal to the pterostigma between the costa and the radial vein.
Abdomen linear from base to tip (very slender); 23–26 mm long; predominantly bronze, or black (dark or blackish bronze in the female), or red (in the male); plain, or predominantly transversely banded (variously red with thin black and/or yellow inter-segmental bands, or the segments mostly black with yellow intersegmental bands); without mid-dorsal spots. The male abdomen without auricles on segment 2; with paired inferior anal appendages. Abdominal segment 8 of the female without a ventral apical spine.
Distribution: English Midlands, East Anglia, Wales, southeast England, southwest England, and central southern England (but very local in East Anglia). Adults on the wing late may to early September (generally in best mature condition late June to mid-August).
Classification: Zygoptera; family Coenagriidae.
General comments: Adults of both sexes with pale red legs.
Source:http://delta-intkey.com/britin/odo/www/tenellu.htm
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- siggi
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(4632) - [2008-06-17 11:34]
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Hello Harm,
Stunning details, just super sharpness.
Great composition and colours.
Brilliant image.
Best regards
Siggi
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- batu
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(11374) - [2008-06-17 11:38]
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Hello Harm,
brilliant, sharp and well composed picture of this damselfly species.
I did not check but I think it is not often shown at TN.
Thanks for posting and best wishes,
Peter
Hello Harm,
Goed gedaan. Mooie ogen:-)
Bedankt
Annick
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- PeterZ
(9489)
- [2008-06-17 12:37]
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Hallo Harm,
Prachtige scherpe foto in schitterende kleuren.
Mooie compositie.
Snel terug naar de tweede helft.
Groet,
Peter
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- rdfoto
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(3202) - [2008-06-17 12:42]
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Bonjour Harm
Très belle capture, excellentes couleurs et contraste, bonne netteté et gestion de la luminosité.
Amicalement Robi
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- cloud
(2053)
- [2008-06-17 12:49]
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Hello Harm,
Excellent work, sharpness and BG are great.
Regards, Pawel
Excellent shot Harm, with great sharpness on all the damselfly. Good light and original composition with diagonales and X.
Best regards,
Catherine
Hi Harm
Great shot of this young one. I haven't seen this species before.
Great sharpness and DOF. I like the colours, the white eyes are cool.
Chris
