Pilbara Billabongfly (Austroagrion pindrina)

Pilbara Billabongfly (Austroagrion pindrina)

Inhabits still and flowing waters

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• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 1 of 54

• ○ Damselflies without this combination of characters

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 14 of 54

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• ● Anal vein leaving wing margin nearer to or beyond level of Ac
  ● Basal segment of hindwing anal vein, if present, not more than half length of Ac

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 35 of 54

• ○ Damselflies with dark brown or black markings on pale background (reddish, yellow, green, blue, pale brown), or substantially dark, the dark areas in either case often with metallic sheen

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 37 of 54

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• ● Pterostigma of forewing similar in size to that of hindwing
  ● Female lacking ventral spine on abdominal segment 8

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 38 of 54

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• ● Pterostigma markedly longer than wide

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 40 of 54

• ○ No such markings on thorax or abdomen

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 41 of 54

• ○ Synthorax blue and black

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 42 of 54

• ○ Antealar sinus black

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 44 of 54

• ○ Abdominal segment 4 and 5 more than half black above
  
  ⇒ genus: Austroagrion

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 45 of 54

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• ● Abdominal segment 7 black
  ● Segment 8 blue, usually with small to large distal, mid-dorsal black mark
  ● Segment 9 blue with generally large, distal, mid-dorsal black mark

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 46 of 54

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• ● Superior appendages much longer than inferiors

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 47 of 54

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• ● Black marks on abdominal segments 8 and 9 extending full length of segment
  
  ⇒ species: Pilbara Billabongfly (Austroagrion pindrina)

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 48 of 54

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• ● Posterior lobe of pronotum without forwardly directed, finger-like process on each side

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 50 of 54

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• ○ Upper surface of abdominal segment 1 brown to black, with or without orange-brown dorsal and lateral marks
  ● Anal vein leaving wing margin at Ac

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 51 of 54

• ○ Synthoracic terga partially dark brown to black
  ○ Abdominal tergum 1 with triangular to parallel-sided dark brown to black dorsal mark lacking pale mid-dorsal line
  
  ⇒ genus: Austroagrion

• Coenagrionidae: Key couplet 52 of 54

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• ● Central part of posterior lobe of pronotum elongate, broadened at tip
  
  ⇒ species: Pilbara Billabongfly (Austroagrion pindrina)