Northern Banded Groundling
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Brachythemis impartita
Found in Southern & Western Europe, mainly France & Spain.
There are none in Britain & Ireland.
They have a pale cream pterostigma in both sexes and their eyes appear to be striped.
The Female has a buffy abdomen and thorax, Males are darker and mature Males can be dark blue to black on the abdomen and thorax.
Males have bands on the outer wings from the node to just short of the pterostigma, this is paler in teneral individuals but darkens as the dragonfly matures.
Where they overlap with B. leucosticta the males can be distinguished by the colour of the veins and the genital lobe, as well as by the ventral structure of segment 8.
The Females cannot yet be told apart.
Flies from Late April-Mid September.