Orthetrum trinacria

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Orthetrum trinacria
Orthetrum trinacria eats Ischnura elegans.jpg
Male eats a Blue-tailed damselfly
Long skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria) female.jpg
Female
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Orthetrum
Species:
O. trinacria
Binomial name
Orthetrum trinacria
(Selys, 1841)
Synonyms [2]

Libellula trinacriaSelys, 1841

Orthetrum trinacria, the Long Skimmer, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, France (Corsica), Gambia, Ghana, Italy (Sicily and Sardinia), Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. It was recently recorded in the Maltese Islands in 2003 and was recorded breeding on the island of Gozo in 2004. Its natural habitats are rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Also breeding in Southern Spain (Murcia and Malaga Provinces) and the Canary Islands. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Boudot, J.-P.; Clausnitzer, V.; Samraoui, B.; Suhling, F.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B. (2016). "Orthetrum trinacria". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T59965A83859517. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59965A83859517.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. "Species summary for Orthetrum trinacria". Animalbase. Retrieved 14 October 2019.