Fauna - Vertebrates

Zosteraeschna minuscula - Friendly Hawker

Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Odonata, Family: Aeshnidae - Hawkers
Zosteraeschna minuscula
Friendly Hawker

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
striped and speckled greenish yellow and brownish with distinct blue saddle at base of abdomen (male)

striped and speckled greenish yellow and brownish with distinct blue saddle at base of abdomen (male)

striped and speckled greenish and reddish, no blue on abdomen (female)

striped and speckled greenish and reddish, no blue on abdomen (female)

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



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