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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.

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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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