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{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
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| name = Sapphire rockmaster
| name = Sapphire rockmaster
| image= Diphlebia coerulescens male (13533064124).jpg
| image = Amber with black damselfly shoulder (15606931484).jpg
| image_caption = Female
| superfamilia = [[Calopterygoidea]]
| image2 = Pale blue damselfly flank (16043282799).jpg
| familia = [[Diphlebiidae]]
| image2_caption = Male
| genus = '''''[[Diphlebia]]'''''
| status = LC
|species = '''''D. coerulescens'''''
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Dow, R.A. |date=2017 |title=''Diphlebia coerulescens'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T14275086A59256618 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T14275086A59256618.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref>
|taxon = Diphlebia coerulescens
|taxon = Diphlebia coerulescens
|authority = [[Robert John Tillyard|Tillyard]] 1913<ref name="Tillyard 1913d">{{Cite journal|last=Tillyard|first=R.J.|year=1913|title=Some descriptions of new forms of Australian Odonata|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6407292|journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales|volume=38|pages=229–241 [235]|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.13559|via=[[Biodiversity Heritage Library]]|doi-access=free}}</ref>
|authority = [[Robert John Tillyard|Tillyard]] 1913
| range_map = Diphlebia coerulescens distribution map.svg
}}
}}


'''''Diphlebia coerulescens''''', known as the '''sapphire rockmaster''' is an Australian species of broad winged [[damselfly]]. It is one of a group known as the [[Diphlebiidae|azure damselflies]]. It is found in [[Queensland]] and northeastern [[New South Wales]] in eastern Australia, where it is found in fast-flowing streams and rivers.<ref name=theisinger>{{cite book|title=The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia|year=2006|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|isbn=0-643-09073-8|author=Günther Theischinger, John Hawking|accessdate=11 August 2010|url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/Dragonflies%20sample.pdf}}</ref>
'''''Diphlebia coerulescens''''', known as the '''sapphire rockmaster''',<ref name=theisinger/> is an Australian species of broad winged [[damselfly]].<ref name="AFD">{{Cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Diphlebia_coerulescens |title=Species ''Diphlebia coerulescens'' Tillyard, 1913|date=2012|website=[[Australian Faunal Directory]]|publisher=[[Australian Biological Resources Study]]|access-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>
It is one of a group known as the [[Diphlebiidae|azure damselflies]]. It is found in [[Queensland]] and north-eastern [[New South Wales]] in eastern Australia, where it is found in fast-flowing streams and rivers.<ref name=theisinger>{{cite book|title=The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia|year=2006|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|isbn=0-643-09073-8|author=Günther Theischinger, John Hawking|access-date=11 August 2010|url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/Dragonflies%20sample.pdf}}</ref>


English-born [[entomologist]], [[Robert John Tillyard|Robin Tillyard]] described the sapphire rockmaster as a subspecies of the tropical rockmaster (''[[Diphlebia euphaeoides]]'') in 1913, before reassessing it as a separate species on the basis of the distinct shaped of the male anal appendage, as well as differences in size and colour of the adults.<ref name=stewart>{{Cite journal | last1 = Stewart | first1 = William Elliott | title = The Australian genus ''Diphlebia'' Selys (Odonata : Amphipterygidae). I. Taxonomic revision of the adults | doi = 10.1071/AJZS075 | journal = Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series | volume = 28 | issue = 75 | pages = 1-57| year = 1980 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref>
English-born [[entomologist]], [[Robert John Tillyard|Robin Tillyard]] described the sapphire rockmaster as a subspecies of the tropical rockmaster, ''[[Diphlebia euphaeoides]]'' in 1913, before reassessing it as a separate species on the basis of the distinct shape of the male anal appendage, as well as differences in size and colour of the adults.<ref name=stewart>{{Cite journal | last1 = Stewart | first1 = William Elliott | title = The Australian genus ''Diphlebia'' Selys (Odonata : Amphipterygidae). I. Taxonomic revision of the adults | doi = 10.1071/AJZS075 | journal = Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series | volume = 28 | issue = 75 | pages = 1–57| year = 1980 }}</ref>


The male sapphire rockmaster has a mostly bright blue and black body with dark wings. It can be distinguished from the tropical rockmaster by the larger size of prominent two blue markings at the base (front end) and underside of [[Tergum|terga]] 4 to 6.<ref name=theisinger/> Its upperside abdomen of its otherwise black abdomen often has blue markings to the front ends of the terga. The wings are narrower than the tropical rockmaster, but wider than the other members of the genus, and are a smoky brown rather than black. The legs are mostly brownish black, but have some blue on the upper mid and hind [[femur]]s. The female sapphire rockmaster is predominantly brown and olive-green, and also has smoky-coloured wings. Its legs are dark brown with light brown upper segments of mid and hind femurs. The upperside of its abdomen is a dark olive-green,<ref name=stewart/> with a darker dorsal line prominent on running down the midline,<ref name=theisinger/> which widens into a roughly triangular pattern at the rear end of each segment ([[tergum]]).<ref name=stewart/>
The male sapphire rockmaster has a mostly bright blue and black body with dark wings. It can be distinguished from the tropical rockmaster by the larger size of two prominent blue markings at the base (front end) and underside of [[Tergum|terga]] 4 to 6.<ref name=theisinger/> Its upperside abdomen of its otherwise black abdomen often has blue markings to the front ends of the terga. The wings are narrower than the tropical rockmaster, but wider than the other members of the genus, and are a smoky brown rather than black. The legs are mostly brownish black, but have some blue on the upper mid and hind [[femur]]s. The female sapphire rockmaster is predominantly brown and olive-green, and also has smoky-coloured wings. Its legs are dark brown with light brown upper segments of mid and hind femurs. The upperside of its abdomen is a dark olive-green,<ref name=stewart/> with a darker dorsal line prominently running down the midline,<ref name=theisinger/> which widens into a roughly triangular pattern at the rear end of each segment ([[tergum]]).<ref name=stewart/>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="200" >
Amber with black danselfly flank (16041839048).jpg | Female
Blue damselfly lateral (16096715076).jpg | Male
Pale blue damselfly cheek (15606979714).jpg | Male
Pale blue damselfly lateral wings up (15609547813).jpg | Wings up
Pale blue damselfly bum up from behind (16228598862).jpg | Bum up
Diphlebia coerulescens female wings (34788166926).jpg | Female wings
Diphlebia coerulescens male wings (34788170596).jpg | Male wings
</gallery>


== References ==
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Latest revision as of 01:42, 29 January 2023

Sapphire rockmaster
Female
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Lestoideidae
Genus: Diphlebia
Species:
D. coerulescens
Binomial name
Diphlebia coerulescens

Diphlebia coerulescens, known as the sapphire rockmaster,[3] is an Australian species of broad winged damselfly.[4] It is one of a group known as the azure damselflies. It is found in Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales in eastern Australia, where it is found in fast-flowing streams and rivers.[3]

English-born entomologist, Robin Tillyard described the sapphire rockmaster as a subspecies of the tropical rockmaster, Diphlebia euphaeoides in 1913, before reassessing it as a separate species on the basis of the distinct shape of the male anal appendage, as well as differences in size and colour of the adults.[5]

The male sapphire rockmaster has a mostly bright blue and black body with dark wings. It can be distinguished from the tropical rockmaster by the larger size of two prominent blue markings at the base (front end) and underside of terga 4 to 6.[3] Its upperside abdomen of its otherwise black abdomen often has blue markings to the front ends of the terga. The wings are narrower than the tropical rockmaster, but wider than the other members of the genus, and are a smoky brown rather than black. The legs are mostly brownish black, but have some blue on the upper mid and hind femurs. The female sapphire rockmaster is predominantly brown and olive-green, and also has smoky-coloured wings. Its legs are dark brown with light brown upper segments of mid and hind femurs. The upperside of its abdomen is a dark olive-green,[5] with a darker dorsal line prominently running down the midline,[3] which widens into a roughly triangular pattern at the rear end of each segment (tergum).[5]

Gallery[edit]

  • Female
    Female
  • Male
    Male
  • Male
    Male
  • Wings up
    Wings up
  • Bum up
    Bum up
  • Female wings
    Female wings
  • Male wings
    Male wings

References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diphlebia coerulescens.
  1. ^ Dow, R.A. (2017). "Diphlebia coerulescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14275086A59256618. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T14275086A59256618.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Tillyard, R.J. (1913). "Some descriptions of new forms of Australian Odonata". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 38: 229–241 [235]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.13559 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ^ a b c d Günther Theischinger, John Hawking (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia (PDF). CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-09073-8. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Species Diphlebia coerulescens Tillyard, 1913". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b c Stewart, William Elliott (1980). "The Australian genus Diphlebia Selys (Odonata : Amphipterygidae). I. Taxonomic revision of the adults". Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series. 28 (75): 1–57. doi:10.1071/AJZS075.
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