[5] Anax guttatus is widespread from India to Japan and Australia and Pacific Ocean Islands.

[6] It is found in Northern Australia, Africa, Bangladesh, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hainan), Indonesia, India, Japan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Tonga and Vanuatu.

[1] It is a big dragonfly with blue eyes, pale green thorax and dark brown abdomen with bright blue-green markings on the sides.

Anal appendages are dark brown; the middle of the inner margins of the superiors have a projection like a straight edged shelf.

The blue on the dorsum of segment 2 will be broken up into four by a narrow brown mid-dorsal carina and a transverse line lying midway to form a cross like mark.