Taxonomy
Lestes dissimulans
SUMMARY
Face: With pale bluish lower part, remainder black. Labrum and anteclypeus pale bluish green. Postclypeus blackish, pale blue on outer margins. Genae pale greyish blue. Head above mostly black with sheen.
Eyes: bright blue above, greyish below
Prothorax: black with metallic green blotches.
Synthorax: with faint greyish brown and black irregular stripes. Sides with fairly heavy pruinescence and small black dots.
Wings: clear to slightly smoky
Pterostigmas: broad, rectangular, dark brown with fine, pale borders anteriorly and on outer edge
Abdomen: greenish grey, with black markings beginning on S1 as a large spot, widening to dorsal band on S2-7. S8 mostly black. Fine yellowish rings at end of each S1-7. S9-10 pruinescent bright grey. Superior appendages all black.
Female: greenish brown with broken metallic green stripes on thorax, as in male.