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Yellow featherlegs (Copera marginipes)

Yellow featherlegs (Copera marginipes) is a species of animal in the Platycnemididae, a winged and flying insect, a medium sized damselfly with a pair of large, bluish-brown eyes and a black band around it, transparent wings and sexual demorphism.

C. marginipes has a head that is dominated by the size of the eyes, a black back, yellow or bluish-white sides and a narrow humerus stripe of greenish yellow color. This line is followed by a wide black fascia, in the middle of the lateral side of the chest with small pale yellow spots.

Dlium Yellow featherlegs (Copera marginipes)


The stomach is elongated, tubular and segmented. Sex on the tip and whole white with a hint of black. Transparent wings with black veins, rectangular in shape with rounded tips.

The male has bright yellow legs, a bluish white belly and black. Females are larger in size with a dull bluish color and less conspicuous pattern than males, brownish yellow legs with black stripes, dull bluish color and less conspicuous complexion.



Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Coenagrionoidea
Family: Platycnemididae
Genus: Copera
Species: Copera marginipes

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