Northern Billabongfly

Austroagrion exclamationis · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

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Northern Billabongfly
Photo: Summerdrought, CC BY-SA

The Northern Billabongfly is a small damselfly that lives in streams and still water. Males are colored blue and black.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Male individuals show blue and black coloration.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

It is a small damselfly.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It inhabits streams and still water.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It occurs in New Guinea and northern Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Northern Billabongfly photo 2
Photo: John Tann from Mullumbimby, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Northern Billabongfly photo 3
Photo: John Tann from Mullumbimby, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Questions people ask

Where is the Northern Billabongfly found?

It is recorded from New Guinea and northern Australia and lives in streams and still water.

Source: Wikipedia

What does the male Northern Billabongfly look like?

Male Northern Billabongflies are blue and black.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

Eastern ForktailEastern ForktailIschnura verticalisBlue-tailed DamselflyBlue-tailed DamselflyIschnura elegansFragile ForktailFragile ForktailIschnura positaAzure DamselflyAzure DamselflyCoenagrion puellaFamiliar BluetFamiliar BluetEnallagma civileCommon Blue DamselflyCommon Blue DamselflyEnallagma cyathigerum

Sources

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

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

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