Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta)
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Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
1 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr040 02/12/2008 12:29 F8 1/180 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Upper Ebor Falls, Ebor, NSW [-30.402933°; 152.342817°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
2 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr041 02/12/2008 12:30 F5.6 1/250 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Upper Ebor Falls, Ebor, NSW [-30.402933°; 152.342817°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
3 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr042 02/12/2008 12:31 F5.6 1/250 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Upper Ebor Falls, Ebor, NSW [-30.402933°; 152.342817°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♂
4 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr043 02/12/2008 12:51 F5.6 1/180 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Upper Ebor Falls, Ebor, NSW [-30.402933°; 152.342817°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
5 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr099 25/12/2008 12:50 F8 1/125 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Stream at Island Bend, Kosciuszko NP, NSW [-36.327174°; 148.473206°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
6 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr104 25/12/2008 14:12 F5.6 1/250 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Stream at Island Bend, Kosciuszko NP, NSW [-36.327174°; 148.473206°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
7 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr156 02/01/2009 12:08 F8 1/500 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
8 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr157 02/01/2009 12:27 F8 1/250 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
9 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr160 02/01/2009 13:30 F8 1/350 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
10 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr161 02/01/2009 13:57 F5.6 1/350 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♀
11 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr163 02/01/2009 14:33 F8 1/180 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♂
12 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr164 02/01/2009 15:00 F8 1/350 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta) ♂
13 / 13; PhotoID: AusDr170 03/01/2009 14:52 F5.6 1/125 180mm ISO200 Canon50D -Crop -Flash MF
Hanging Rock Swamp, Penrose State Forest, NSW [-34.631750°; 150.201317°]
Synthemistidae: Key couplet 1 of 26
- ○ Dark markings, if present, confined to basal parts of wings
Synthemistidae: Key couplet 2 of 26
- ● Generally two to five crossveins in median space of all wings
Synthemistidae: Key couplet 9 of 26
- ● No accessory thick antenodal in forewing, only the two primaries present
● Male tergum 10 with posteriorly directed pale mid-dorsal cone
● Ovipositor reaching beyond segment 9
⇒ genus: Synthemis
Synthemistidae: Key couplet 10 of 26
- ● Large pale spot on supplementary transverse carina on each side of abdominal tergum 2, smaller in male than in female
⇒ species: Swamp Tigertail (Synthemis eustalacta)