Zygoptera (damselflies)

Code Q0059999

A commonly met family of damselflies found in running or still water throughout Australia. Adults of Australian species are green, bronze, or black with blue markings. Larvae have narrow leaf-like gills without a node or long filaments, held vertically as in Coenagrionidae. Unlike Coenagrionids, the tracheal branches are at right angles to the main axis. The labial palps, except in the earliest free-living (2nd) instar (John Trueman, pers. obs.), are deeply lobed.

Reference:

Hawking, J.H. (1986) Dragonfly larvae of the River Murray system. Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation Technical Report No. 6., Wodonga.