Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (male, eating)
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (male)
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (male)
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (male)
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (teneral male)
English name:	---
Dutch name:	Koperen beekjuffer
Photos taken at the Canal de Vergière, Crau, Southern France, 11th of August 2002 (top photo) and 20th of July 2001 (all other photos)

Note: All European Calopteryx species have green or blue metallic colored males, except for Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis, which is red metallic. Hence the Dutch name: "koper" means "copper". Southern species, which occurs on the Iberian peninsula and Southern France, Northwest Italy and Southern Swiss.

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