About Euphaea fraseri (Laidlaw, 1920)
This is a medium-sized damselfly species with the scientific name Euphaea fraseri (Laidlaw, 1920). Males have a black head and pale grey eyes with brown caps. The male thorax is black, marked with sky-blue antehumeral stripes and reddish-yellow humeral stripes. The base of the lateral sides of the thorax is red. The legs are red, matching those of Euphaea cardinalis, except the first pair of legs is dark. The wings are narrower than those of Euphaea cardinalis, and the hind-wings are shorter than the fore-wings. The fore-wings are transparent, with only a light brown tint at the apices. The hind-wings are transparent, but the outermost one third, extending from the apices, is broadly black. The male abdomen is bright red up to segment 7; the apical third of segment 7 through to the final end segment is black. Male anal appendages are black. Females are short and robust, and all the ochreous-red coloration seen in males is replaced with yellow in females. All wings of adult female Euphaea fraseri are transparent and infused with black. The female abdomen is black with yellow lateral stripes that extend up to segment 6, and these yellow lateral stripes continue on to segment 7. Segment 8 has a narrow yellow apical annule, and segment 9 has a broad yellow apical annule, and these annules cover the dorsal half of the segments. This species breeds in hill streams located at lower elevations. Males are typically found perched on low herbage growing along stream banks or in the middle of streams.
