[6] It has an elongated abdomen and pale brown spots on its wings and resides in areas of still water with overhanging trees.

C. parvidens occurs in Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia and in Italy; near Rome it flies with C. viridis in the same ponds.

C. viridis is found on many mediterranean islands including Corsica, Sicily, Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, in the Maghreb in North Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.

It occurs in still or slow flowing water in ditches, ponds, lakes and canals, with overhanging willows, alders or birches, which are used for breeding.

The lower anal appendages are less than half the length of the upper which are a distinctive pale yellow with black tips.

Flight period is late from August to October although in the southernmost parts of its range it can occur as early as May and persist until November.

Mature males defend vertical territories in marginal shrubs and small trees where they find and mate with females in the normal damselfly manner forming the wheel position.

Egg laying can result in distinct oval galls forming in the shrub's bark.