Black Tigertail

Eusynthemis nigra · Order: Odonata · Family: Synthemistidae

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Black Tigertail
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA

It lives beside streams in eastern Australia. It can be confused with the similar-looking Eusynthemis brevistyla that also inhabits southeastern Australian streams.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Identification relies on its black and yellow patterned body.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Adults are medium in size for a dragonfly.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

They are found around streams in eastern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Black Tigertail photo 2
Photo: John Tann from Mullumbimby, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Black Tigertail photo 3
Photo: Graham Winterflood, CC BY-SA
Black Tigertail photo 4
Photo: John Tann from Mullumbimby, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Same family (Synthemistidae)

Yellow-tipped TigertailYellow-tipped TigertailChoristhemis flavoterminataSwamp TigertailSwamp TigertailSynthemis eustalacta

Sources

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

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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