Common Winter Damselfly

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The Common Winter Damselfly (Sympecma fusca) is one of only two European species which overwinter as adults.
It's a medium-sized, drab brown-and-creamy-white damselfly, and it's common and widely distributed throughout Europe except the British Isles and Scandinavia.
When at rest, Sympecma fusca folds its four wings together along one side of its abdomen, in which case the long and narrow pterostigmas in the front wings are aligned in front of those in the rear wings.

First 3 photos: Zanderij Crailo, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 29 August 2013
4th photo: Zanderij Crailo, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 24 June 2013
5th photo: Landgoed Oostbroek, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 4 September 2018

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