Kembali ke Halaman Spesies
#2170Species-level IDRelatively commonAnimalbattleTierChip

Panduan lapangan hewan

Pied Paddy Skimmer

Identifikasi, habitat, rarity, perilaku, simbolisme, fakta, dan pelajaran praktis dari alam.

Pied Paddy Skimmer (Neurothemis tullia) featured animal image on AnimalDex
Relatively common
Kampung Cerang Meliling · Jerteh · Terengganu · Malaysia
Wild
Story
Animal Power

Marked Wing

Mark the small water.

What it teaches

A clear mark on a small territory is enough. You do not need the whole river.

You’re #1 of 1

yesterday
Kampung Cerang Meliling · Jerteh · Terengganu · Malaysia

RECORD ID

95DF0282-9C14-41FB-A65C-C4167E0BA308

Native range

Natural range, not this capture location

Broad land range
South Asia
Southeast Asia
East Asia

Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

Search near me

Nama ilmiah

Neurothemis tullia

Kategori

Animal

Habitat

Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

Rarity

Relatively common · 16/100

Native range

Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

Mengapa Marked Wing?

Alasan di balik Prinsip Hewan ini dan biologi yang mendukungnya.

Neurothemis tullia does not hawk a lake. It holds a few metres of paddy or drain, and the pied wings are the sign that the stretch is taken.

Cara mengidentifikasi Pied Paddy Skimmer

  • Small dragonfly of rice fields and drains
  • Male: dark brown wings with a clean white band at the tip
  • Female: golden-brown wings with a dark leading edge
  • Perches low on bunds, grass stems and paddy edges

Kenapa Pied Paddy Skimmer menarik

  • It is one of the most photographed dragonflies of South and Southeast Asian farmland.
  • Males are territorial on a very small scale — a bund, not a pond.
  • The white wing-tips flash as it moves, which is how you pick it out of a mixed skimmer flock.
  • Nymphs live in shallow, often warm, water that would not hold a large hawker.

Habitat: Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

Native range: Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

nativeRangeCardTitle

nativeRangeCardDescription

Broad land range
South AsiaSoutheast AsiaEast Asia

Native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place.

To find Pied Paddy Skimmer in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside native range keys: south_asia, southeast_asia, east_asia. Rice paddies, drains, marsh edges and shallow ponds. Shallow, open, warm water is the habitat; a forest stream is the wrong place. than by covering too much ground.

  • Quiet marsh edges, reedbeds, river bends, or shallow wetland margins
  • Forest edge, canopy gaps, fruiting trees, or shaded trails where cover and food meet
  • Sunlit logs, exposed branches, warm rocks, or regular perch sites used for scanning
  • Early sun and calm weather usually give the best chance of seeing normal basking, perched, or soaring behavior.
  • Work edges, clearings, fruiting trees, and stream crossings rather than walking randomly through dense cover.
  • Move quietly, stop often, and give the habitat time to settle; many mammals and insects show themselves only after the first pause.

Small flying insects taken from a perch or in a short sally, mostly over the same few metres of water the male is holding.

Birds, frogs and larger dragonflies take adults; fish and water beetles take nymphs. Holding a tiny territory next to cover is how an obvious insect lasts the afternoon.

Day-active, perched through the warm hours, stiller in heavy rain.

Adults live a few weeks. Several generations run through a wet-rice year.

Eggs are dropped into shallow water. Nymphs finish in warm paddy water faster than they would in a deep pond.

The pied wing is the male. Females are golden and are found farther along the same bund, not holding a stem.

  • Small dragonfly of rice fields and drains
  • Male: dark brown wings with a clean white band at the tip
  • Female: golden-brown wings with a dark leading edge
  • Perches low on bunds, grass stems and paddy edges

Pied Paddy Skimmer most often symbolizes marked wing in AnimalDex because its real survival behavior repeatedly shows this pattern.

A clear mark on a small territory is enough. You do not need the whole river.

Male Neurothemis tullia sit on rice-field bunds with dark wings tipped white. The mark is the territory. Females and rivals read it from a stem away.

  • Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
  • Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
  • Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.

Hewan terkait

Lebih banyak hewan dengan kekuatan Identity

Jelajahi semua hewan Identity

Bawa ensiklopedia ke dunia nyata

AnimalDex membantumu memindai hewan nyata, mengidentifikasi spesies, mengoleksi kartu, dan belajar dari alam di mana pun kamu berada.

Koleksi dunia nyataKonteks spesiesRiwayat spotting