White-legged Damselfly

Blue Federlibelle ( Platycnemis pennipes ), male

The Blue Federlibelle ( Platycnemis pennipes ), formerly often called a congregation Federlibelle, is a Kleinlibellenart from the family of the spring Dragonflies ( Platycnemididae ).

Features

The Blue Federlibelle is 3.5 cm long, with a wingspan of 4.5 cm. The style is the Slim Dragonflies ( Coenagrionidae ) at first glance very similar. However, in the spring dragonfly species the rails ( tibiae ) are widened the rear and middle legs and staffed with herringbone thorns, which gives them a feather -like appearance.

Habitat and Distribution

The Blue Federlibelle propagates both in standing water or in low -carrying waters, reaching in rivers with a good stock of aquatic plants, the highest individual densities.

The species is considered ponto - Caspian faunal element ( distribution center in South East Europe and West Asia), but has a beautiful post also spread to Central and Western Europe. It is a kind of deeper, thermally favored positions, which occurs mainly at altitudes of less than 500 m above sea level. About 800 m above sea level it can only propagate in exceptional cases.

Reproduction

In oviposition the female the eggs like stabs with coupled males in flower stems of yellow pond lily. The larvae overwinter, the emergence (hatching of flying insects ) takes place in May and June of the following year.

Pictures

Paarungsrad the Blue Federlibelle

Oviposition

Face of the male