Dragonfly for ID please.

not posted for a while as I've been in Cyprus for my holidays. this little patient fella flew into the garden of the villa we stayed at and was very accommodating, the shots have only been cropped to frame and the colours have not been tweaked at all, they are basically straight out of the camera, so can any of you enlightened folks give me an ID please.
very pleased with it as its my first dragonfly shot.
thanks for looking C&C's welcome as always.

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nice ones.no idea what species it is.

Cheers mate.
Im now thinking it might be a damsel fly as it was quite small, possibly a Small Red Damselfly (Ceriagrion tenellum)????

no it,s a dragonfly for sure,just don't know which species.

mandokid1 wrote in post #16953308
no it,s a dragonfly for sure,just don't know which species.

Cheers mando.

Nice work!

How about Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea) or Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii)?

We need to know where you took the picture to be sure.

tandemhearts wrote in post #16953945
We need to know where you took the picture to be sure.

South/east cyprus mate.

Ah, sorry I missed that. It probably isn't a Red veined Darter becaue the black stripes on the thorax don't match the reference images. It probably isn't a Scarlet Darter because the abdomen is too squat and those black patterns on the underside look wrong. I'm US based, so I'll have to google some more.

Lovely photos by the way.

I'm thinking maybe Red-veined dropwing (Trithemis arteriosa).
http://www.arkive.org …wing/trithemis-arteriosa/

http://www.animalphoto​s.me/insect1/dwrv.htm

The black marks on the bottom of the abdomen look right (but the face is a maybe), and only if it sat with its wings down and forward most of the time.

Possibly a Violet Dropwing... there are quite a few photos with their wings up
http://www.surfbirds.c​om …prus-dragons-and-damsels/

Lovely captures whatever species it is
Brian v.

lovely shots...

Thanks for the comments and help with th id i have loads of other shots of it which are not keepers so will take a look at the links later.
Thanks again.