Key Identification Features
- These displays involve flashing and vibrating their brightly colored legs (a movement referred to as foot waggling), which feature flattened tibiae, and waving their abdomens.
- Experiments that altered the color of the tibiae revealed that the anterior and posterior tibial colors have distinct functions.
- Its body is black with blue markings, and it has long dark wings that feature a pterostigma.
- Mature males have an orange-red and black striped thorax, and a distinctive abdomen patterned with red, black, and blue.
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