It is found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

[1][3][4] It is a big dragonfly with blue eyes, pale green thorax and dark brown abdomen with bright yellowish-red markings on the sides.

Anal appendages are dark brown; the superiors have a triangular projection at the middle of their inner margin.

[5][6][7] This dragonfly looks similar to Anax guttatus; but can be identifiable by contiguous yellow spots on the posterior abdomen segments (7-8).

But 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.