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Description: Copera marginipes, Yellow Bush Dart, is a species of damselfly in the Platycnemididae family. The male is easy to spot with its bright yellow legs and end segments that are white. Its caudal appendages are also large. ID key: "Anal appendages pale yellow to white, the inferiors tipped with black beneath ; superiors half the length of segment 10, vestigial, tiny rounded tubercles, with the apex pointed and hooked strongly ventralwards ; inferiors at least four times the length of superiors, broad at base, tapering but slightly to a rounded obtuse apex, slightly separated at base, apices sloping in and finally meeting, inner surfaces hollowed out. - Fraser, Odonata vol I, page 193"
Title: Copera marginipes-Kadavoor-2016-11-11-001
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