I Found a New Species of Dragonfly!

Hurray!

This is almost click bait.

To be more precise: I found a species of dragonfly I had never seen before, so it was new to me.

I like it a lot when that happens.

It was a western clubtail (Gomphus pulchellus), plasrombout in Dutch, and I managed to get some good photos:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/640s}

This dragonfly is found in Western Europe and Southwestern Europe, but not in Great Britain.

Na-na na-na naah-na.

It is about 50mm (2") in length and it lives mostly near puddles, slow-flowing waters, and sometimes fens.

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 135mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/800s}

The books say these aren't rare, so I wonder where they have been hiding all this time.

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f8, 1/500s}

I also noticed they have funny lips, at least for a dragonfly:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f8, 1/500s}

Another species for the list. Yay!

Thanks for watching!