Asian Blood Tail

Lathrecista asiatica · Order: Odonata · Family: Libellulidae

Also called: Asiatic Blood Tail, Scarlet Grenadier

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Asian Blood Tail
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA

The Asian Blood Tail is a medium-sized dragonfly with a copper-brown thorax marked by narrow parallel yellow stripes on top and yellow side stripes. Its abdomen shows a pattern of broad lateral stripes on segments 1-2, bright crimson-red on segments 3-8 with narrow black sutures, and black on the last two segments and the anal appendages (-).

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Segments 9 and 10 are black, as are the anal appendages (-).

Source: Wikipedia

Size

It is a medium-sized dragonfly.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Asian Blood Tail photo 2
Photo: ginko14, CC BY
Asian Blood Tail photo 3
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Asian Blood Tail photo 4
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA
Asian Blood Tail photo 5
Photo: Rod Lowther, CC BY

Same family (Libellulidae)

Blue DasherBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisEastern PondhawkEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisCommon WhitetailCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaWidow SkimmerWidow SkimmerLibellula luctuosaAutumn MeadowhawkAutumn MeadowhawkSympetrum vicinumCommon DarterCommon DarterSympetrum striolatum

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathrecista_asiatica

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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