Cherry-eye Sprite

Pseudagrion sublacteum · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

Also called: Riffle Sprite, River Sprite

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Cherry-eye Sprite
Photo: Martiño Cabana Otero, CC BY

The cherry-eye sprite is a medium-sized damselfly about 32 to 41 mm long with a wingspan of 42 to 48 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Its face is brick-red with cherry-red front eyes; the back of the eyes is black above and green below, and mauvish-reddish-brown spots behind the eyes are linked by a stripe of the same colour. The thorax is mauvish brown aging to purplish brown with black dorsal stripes and light-blue sides; the abdomen is black on top, green below, with bright-blue segment 8-9 and black-blue segment 10; cerci are longer than the hatchet-shaped paraprocts that have a dorsal knob.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Adults measure 32 to 41 mm in length and have a wingspan of 42 to 48 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It inhabits subtropical or tropical streams and rivers.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Cherry-eye Sprite photo 2
Photo: Martiño Cabana Otero, CC BY
Cherry-eye Sprite photo 3
Photo: Robert Taylor, CC BY
Cherry-eye Sprite photo 4
Photo: yelena_antipova, CC BY
Cherry-eye Sprite photo 5
Photo: Christoph Moning, CC BY

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

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Sources

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

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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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