Family Calopterygidae
Flight Period . The flight period is May to August.
Size
Description
The Banded Demoiselle is a most striking damselfly I. The male has a coloured metallic blue-green body with large, dark blue patches on its wings. It can often be mistaken for a day-flying moth or dark butterfly or over the water.
Mature males have awith a broad, dark band across the wings Females have a brilliant metallic green body and the wings are tinted green
Image With Thanks (C) Copyright Chris Webster HabitatThis species s found on rivers, streams and drains of moderate to slow-flow that have marginal vegetation.and beds of silt
Similar SpeciesThe similar species, Beautiful Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo, i