With a body length of 29 - 34 mm and a wingspan of 4.5 to 3.5 cm, the black damselfly is our smallest large dragonfly.
The male has a club-shaped abdomen that is black in colour. The female's abdomen is yellow with a broad black band on each side, so that from the side it looks as if the entire underside is black. It has no club shape.
On each side of the yellow abdomen there is a black band with yellow spots.
The black damselfly takes hunting flights from its perch and returns there to eat its prey or to sunbathe.
The Black darter lives in small, shallow bodies of water, which are usually found in bogs. These are often acidic, mostly fishless lakes or overgrown, mostly in moorland areas. with acidic, mostly fishless moorland lakes, but also pools and ponds with shallow water zones and small reeds.
Literature:
- K.-D. Dijkstra, Libellen Europas, 2. Auflage, Haupt Verlag Bern 2021,ISBN 3-258-08219-6, S. 284 f
- K. Sternberg / R. Buchwald, Libellen Baden-Württembergs, Bd. 2, Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3514-0, S. 523–534
- H. Wildermuth, A. Martens, Die Libellen Europas, Quelle & Meyer Wiebelsheim 2018, 3-494-01690-9, S. 398 ff
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