[1][5] It is a medium sized damselfly with brick-red eyes, with two horizontal dark-red equatorial lines.

There is black and narrow mid-dorsal carina; a ante-humeral stripe; and a more or less broken but broad humeral-stripe.

[6] Its wings are transparent; but the fore-wings have a broad blackish-brown fascia, which extends from the node to the pterostigma.

The hind-wings have a similar fascia which begins about 5 cells distal to the node and extends to the pterostigma.

[6] They are commonly found along streams and rivers, perches on emergent boulders and aquatic plants.