It is a medium sized damselfly with reddish-brown eyes, yellowish-green beneath. Its thorax is metallic greenish-black on dorsum. There is a narrow ante-humeral brick-red stripe which get obscured by pruinescence in adults. There is also a brownish-white stripe on the sides between the lateral sutures which is also obscured by pruinescence in adults. Base of the lateral sides are well pruinosed in adults. Wings are transparent with the apices of the wings, deep blackish-brown. The pterostigma is dark reddish-brown. Abdomen is bronze-brown, dark on dorsum, with small, white basal rings on segments 2 to 8. Anal appendages are black. The broad black apices to the wings will help to distinguish it from all other species in the same genus.
