Keywords: Potamarcha congener female 2 by kadavoor.jpg Potamarcha congener female Potamarcha congener commonly known as Yellow-tailed Ashy Skimmer or Common Chaser is a medium sized dragonfly with bluish black thorax and yellow tail with black markings Face is olivaceous yellow to steel black or brown Eyes are reddish brown above and bluish grey below In male adults thorax and first four segments of the abdomen are covered with bluish pruinescence In young adults yellow markings are visible through the pruinescence The rest of the abdomen is black with orange markings with the last two segments entirely black The female thorax has yellow and black stripes on the sides The abdomen is black with dull orange markings and has prominent flaps on each side of segment eight The flaps may serve to hold the eggs in place during oviposition Taken at Kadavoor Kerala India 2010-02-07 13 54 13 own User Jkadavoor/author User Jkadavoor/cc0 2010 Libellulidae Kadavoor <gallery> File Yellow-tailed Ashy Skimmer Potamarcha congener Male by kadavoor jpg Male File Yellow-tailed Ashy Skimmer Potamarcha congener juvenile male by kadavoor jpg Juvenile male File Potamarcha congener female at Kadavoor jpg Female File Potamarcha congener female in Kadavoor jpg Female </gallery> User Jkadavoor/credit-cc0 2010 10 0 10 73 N 76 44 0 52 E Uploaded with UploadWizard Potamarcha congener Images by Jkadavoor Jee Insects of Kadavoor |