English name:  Blue-eyes Damselfly / Globet-marked Damselfly

Size:  Medium damselfly (3-4cm).

Habitat:  Sunny, vegetation-rich bodies of water.

Males fly low and fast above the water surface and rest on aquatic vegetation.

Distribution: From Europe and North Africa through the Middle East to Iran.

Season:  Flies from the beginning of May until the beginning of October (according to data from Turkey).  

Identification marks:
A blue damselfly with black markings.
Distinguished from similar damselflies by the narrow marks between the eyes, and broad antehumeral stripes.
The female is similar but brown instead of the blue parts in the male.

In the male, on the dorsal side of the abdomen from the third to the fifth segment the black markings lengthen and sharpen into arrowheads. (diagnostic mark).

Similar species:
The other damselflies in the country that are blue-black in color are Ischnura syria and Ischnura elegans.