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  • Slender Wiretail, 1 of 5
    Photo 1 of 5

    (c) Phil Benstead, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Slender Wiretail, 2 of 5
    Photo 2 of 5

    (c) Geoff Walker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Slender Wiretail, 3 of 5
    Photo 3 of 5

    (c) Erland Refling Nielsen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Slender Wiretail, 4 of 5
    Photo 4 of 5

    (c) silram, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Slender Wiretail, 5 of 5
    Photo 5 of 5

    (c) Benoît Guillon, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Slender Wiretail

Oristicta filicicola

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Insects
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

Oristicta filicicola is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Isostictidae. Until 2017 it was the only species of the genus Oristicta. Commonly known as a slender wiretail, it is a slender and dull-coloured damselfly of medium-size. It is endemic to north-eastern Australia, where it inhabits streams in rainforests.

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