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	1118 (1 photos) Common Spreadwing (Lestes sponsa) Almindelig Kobbervandnymfe (dk) Lestes Norteño (es) Pudrad Smaragdflickslända (se) 2022-09-01 Jægersborg Dyrehave, Denmark Imago. Male. A scoliotic male. Probably not affecting it much. Aberrant
	2043 (1 photos) Common Bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum ) Almindelig Vandnymfe (dk) Azulado Enallagma (es) Sjöflickslända (se) 2023-07-27 Skær Sø (Egtved), Denmark Imago. Female. At first glance I wanted this animal to be another bluet species, with the shoulder stripe being rather narrow with much dark below it. But apparently it is seen in females occasionally. Aberrant
	2121 (2 photos) Common Bluetail (Ischnura elegans) Stor Farvevandnymfe (dk) Agrion Elegante (es) Större Kustflickslända (se) 2023-08-03 Hovedgård, Denmark Imago. Male. Fruens Have-vandhullet. With wiped-out blue on top of S8. I don't think I've seen this before. Aberrant
	3162 (1 photos) Large Red Damsel (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) Rød Vandnymfe (dk) Caballito de Fuego (es) Röd Flickslända (se) 2025-05-17 Herlufsholm Kostskole, Denmark Imago. Male. Mature. Aberrant
	3163 (1 photos) Large Red Damsel (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) Rød Vandnymfe (dk) Caballito de Fuego (es) Röd Flickslända (se) 2025-05-17 Herlufsholm Kostskole, Denmark Imago. Male. Mature. Aberrant
	3386 (2 photos) Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Efterårs-mosaikguldsmed (dk) Esna Mixta (es) Höstmosaikslända (se) 2025-09-13 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark Imago. Female. SHV-lysningerne. Without appendages. My first thought was that the lost appendages, or very short ones, was the result of an accident or a fight, rather than an innate anomality, but finding another female in the exact same spot, 4 days later, I'm not so sure about that anymore. The other: 3387. Update jan 2026: Communicating with Dennis Paulson he often experience Aeshnids missing their cerci, and that this probably is caused during ovipositing, either by accident or perhaps by aquatic attack. Aberrant
	3387 (3 photos) Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Efterårs-mosaikguldsmed (dk) Esna Mixta (es) Höstmosaikslända (se) 2025-09-17 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark Imago. Female. SHV-lysningerne. Without appendages. This being the second female in a few days in the same spot without appendages, or very short ones. The other: 3386. Also see 3386 for comment. Aberrant
	3158 (3 photos) Common Clubtail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) Almindelig Flodguldsmed (dk) Alguacil Eurasiático (es) Sandflodtrollslända (se) 2025-05-17 Herlufsholm Kostskole, Denmark Imago. Female. Mature. With a damaged and dark-colored right eye. Aberrant
	3301 (4 photos) Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) Stor Blåpil (dk) Centinela Colinegra (es) Större Sjötrollslända (se) 2025-07-19 Han Vejle (skjulet), Denmark Imago. Male. Two different animals. Photo 1-2 (female?), 3-4 (male). While hunting for Baltic Hawker the animal in photos 1-2 landed on the railing. The only species that seems to do this at this site is cancellatum, naturally preferring open sun-exposed perches. But when looking at it at first it didn't look skimmer-like, and I started to hope that it finally could be a Baltic. Female then because it looked greenish. Click click and I saw what looked like two pale thorax ovals and no shoulder stripes. Not really good for a Baltic but until proven otherwise, I was still hoping. But looking again, and closer, it didn't really match. A Migrant Hawker (A. mixta) on the other hand also has the pale yellowish ovals and only shows faint shoulder-stripes. In the sun and from the dirty backscreen I concluded that it had to be a such female. Hasty perhaps, but good enough for me, and not extraordinary in anyway since they have started to fly by now. But then when going through the photos now, it is obviously not a mixta, nor any other hawker, but indeed a cancellatum. Everything on the animal fits a younger individual - except for the two well-defined ovals! I've never seen a cancellatum showing this kind of thorax pattern, and I understand well, why I got confused. Most often the thorax-side is uniformly colored, perhaps with black lines to separate different sections. Most often you see the species from the side or from above, and it has a tendency to hold the wings down, hiding the thorax, why you have to have a side-front angle to the animal to see the thorax well. But that said, I'm still certain that this pattern is not normal, and checking my own photos and ones online, I have only been able to find few similarly-looking individuals, but practically none that looked as marked as this one. And the male in photos 3-4 as well. Aberrant
	1161 (3 photos) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Stor Hedelibel (dk) Alguacil Estriada (es) Större Ängstrollslända (se) 2022-11-05 Kongelundsområdet, Denmark Imago. Male. Skovfogedmarken. An animal with a damaged eye. As if it's been punched in. Apparently it didn't have problems flying and attacking another male. Aberrant
	2386 (3 photos) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Stor Hedelibel (dk) Alguacil Estriada (es) Större Ängstrollslända (se) 2023-09-21 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark Imago. Male. With half a second right leg. I don't recall seeing many animals with damaged legs, so with two today, 2385, this is quite unusual, I think. Are the animals more fragile now, more aggressive toward eatch other or could the fact that bird migration is high right now be causing more injuries by birds chasing them? About species, many of these old males can be tricky to separate, compared to vulgatum [Almindelig Hedelibel], but apart from the classic features this one also shows the details of the secondary genitals, pointed spikes, that support striolatum better than vulgatum that shows more of a lump with two points. Aberrant
	3054 (2 photos) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Stor Hedelibel (dk) Alguacil Estriada (es) Större Ängstrollslända (se) 2024-10-18 Kongelundsområdet, Denmark Imago. Female. Troldelysningen. This female shows an aberrant eye color. The lower part of the eye is normally olive green, but here dark bronzy; more similar to what is seen on the male Black Darter [Sort Hedelibel]. The rest of the animal looks normal, and it behaved like the others present today, sunning on the circled stones and flying and maneuvering without difficulties. Aberrant
	3371 (3 photos) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Stor Hedelibel (dk) Alguacil Estriada (es) Större Ängstrollslända (se) 2025-08-22 Gjerrild (djursland), Denmark Imago. Female. Hestehave-vandhullerne. Form nigrescens. Tentatively calling it this form, being a dark individual that is not too mature to obscure the color tones, and the femurs showing almost no yellow and the center part of the side of the thorax is lined in thick black with yellow center spots, plus the thick black spot under the short moustache. Aberrant
	3398 (2 photos) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) Stor Hedelibel (dk) Alguacil Estriada (es) Större Ängstrollslända (se) 2025-09-28 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark Imago. Female. Bro-vandhullet. When I saw this animals the tail looked bluish, and I was almost sensing Orthetrum vibes. But closer up it was a darter, and I think the substance on wings and the last abdominal segments might be slime from a snail or other type of insect/animal. Aberrant
	2385 (3 photos) Moustached Darter (Sympetrum vulgatum) Almindelig Hedelibel (dk) Libélula de Ocharán (es) Tegelröd Ängstrollslända (se) 2023-09-21 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark Imago. Male. As far as I can tell, the two photos, (1, 2-3) show the same animal, with the cut off half of the left foreleg. However, the first photo was taken near the southern narrow bridge over the channel along Ellevehøjvej, and the other one I took 5 minutes later east of the southern bunker area, some hundred meters away. Am I wrong or did it follow me there? Next part is to accept the species. The moustache does not look too strong down the side of the eye, but it still seems to be a bit too strong and present to fit striolatum. Also there seem to be quite much yellow on the foreleg and the side of the thorax also look darker than normally seem on striolatum. Aberrant

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