[1][3] Diplacodes bipunctata is a small to medium-sized dragonfly with a wingspan of about 55 millimeters.

[5] Diplacodes bipunctata is a widespread species occurring in New Zealand and in a number of islands in the south-Pacific.

In New Zealand it is most common in Northland, but occasional specimens have been found as south as Fiordland.

It is found near a wide variety of freshwater pools, streams and swamps.

[5] This species is an early colonizer of appropriate habitat types in freshwater and brackish waters.