Fauna - Vertebrates

Orthetrum icteromelas - Spectacled Skimmer

Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Odonata, Family: Libellulidae - Skimmers, Dropwings
Orthetrum icteromelas
Spectacled Skimmer

More information on this species

Photographer/Source: G Diedericks - Photo from the Virtual Museum of the Odonata Atlas of Southern Africa, photo credit: G Diedericks


Features
body all blue, darker shoulder stripe on thorax (male)

body all blue, darker shoulder stripe on thorax (male)

front of head looks spectacled (male)

front of head looks spectacled (male)

pterostigmas yellowish brown, dark brown at the front

pterostigmas yellowish brown, dark brown at the front

yellowish brown  body with dark stripe along top of abdomen (female)

yellowish brown body with dark stripe along top of abdomen (female)

More photos on other websites:
Look for Orthetrum_icteromelas on iNaturalist
UCT Animal Demography Unit Virtual Museum
 



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