Lestes sponsa (Common Spreadwing) is as common as its vernacular name indicates: it can be found all over the Palaearctic and is common in most of its range.
Many fresh imagos are partly orange, but only for a short period. Typical (gynochrome) females are browner than males and lack the male’s blue eyes and pruinescence but some females have male colouration and are called androchrome.
in and around Europe
