The citrine forktail (Ischnura hastata) is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae.

Adult females are initially largely orange, marked with black above on the head and rear part of the abdomen.

They undergo a colour change, through brown or olive to greyish, as they mature.

Male citrine forktails are the only damselflies in the world with the pterostigma situated away from the leading edge of the wing.

[2] In the southern United States, adults are on the wing year-round, while farther north the flight season is from April to November, and in the Azores from May to August.