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Black-headed Skimmer The Black-headed Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing and slow-flowing waters. Mature males have a black head and thorax, and the abdomen has a pale bluish powdery coating.
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Brown Tiger Prawn The Brown Tiger Prawn is a large, banded prawn growing to 235 mm in length. It occurs on mud or sandy mud, and is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to central NSW.
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Flame-headed Riverdamsel The Flame-headed Riverdamsel is a moderately large damselfly that inhabits streams and rivers. Males are mostly black with a bright orange face and green stripes of the thorax. As they age, the sides of the thorax and tip of the abdomen develop a pale powdery coating.
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Twister The Twister is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits standing waters, including permanent and temporary swamps and ponds. The adults are crepuscular. Mature males are red with a dark and white patch at the base of each hindwing.
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Wandering Glider The Wandering Glider is a moderately large, yellowish to orange-yellow dragonfly with a line of dark markings along the top of the abdomen. It breeds in a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults can be found far from water.
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Pygmy Wisp The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.
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Palemouth The Palemouth is a small, compact dragonfly that inhabits lakes, ponds, swamps and slow-flowing rivers with plenty of emergent aquatic plants. Mature males are very pale bluish with a black tip on the abdomen.
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Chalky Percher The Chalky Percher is a small dragonfly that inhabits standing waters, including lakes, ponds, swamps and temporary pools. Mature males have most of the body covered in a pale bluish powdery coating and black tip to the abdomen. Young adults are yellowish with black markings.
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Brownwater Skimmer The Brownwater Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly confined to lakes in coastal sand dunes. Young adults are yellow and black. Almost the entire body of mature males develops a pale bluish powdery coating.
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Blue Skimmer The Blue Skimmer is a medium-sized, common dragonfly that inhabits a very wide range of standing and flowing waters. Young adults are yellow and black. Mature males develop a pale bluish powdery coating on the thorax and most of the abdomen except for a dark tip.
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Red-rumped Wisp The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.
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