About Crocothemis servilia (Drury, 1773)
This species is a medium-sized dragonfly. Males of the nominate subspecies are blood-red, with a thin black line running along the mid-dorsal of their abdomen. Their eyes are blood-red on the upper side and purple laterally. The thorax is bright ferruginous, and is often blood-red on the dorsum. Anal appendages are also blood-red. Females are similar in overall form to males, but have an olivaceous-brown thorax and abdomen, with a rather broad black mid-dorsal carina. This dragonfly breeds in ponds, ditches, marshes, open swamps, and rice fields.
