Secondary genitalia mating of Large Red Damselflies

This afternoon a couple of Large Red Damselflies happened to be initiating their mating process as I walked by.

Having started his seduction process by grabbing the female firmly by her neck, he curled his abdomen up and transferred sperm from his primary genitalia below the eighth abdominal segment to a secondary site below his secondary segment as shown above.

 He then entices her to curl around and couple her reproductive organs to his secondary sperm-containing second segment.

 After a bit of fumbling coupling was achieved in the characteristic "wheel" position.

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