Seedless Plants
Fauna - Vertebrates
Fauna - Invertebrates
Trithemis dorsalis - Highland Dropwing
Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Odonata, Family: Libellulidae - Skimmers, Dropwings
Trithemis dorsalis
Highland Dropwing
More information on this species
Immature male
Photographer/Source: Alan Manson - Photo from the Virtual Museum of the Odonata Atlas of Southern Africa, photo credit: Alan Manson
Features
body all blue, eyes dark purple-brown, lighter below (male)
yellow and brown, thorax with two pairs of diagonal wiggly black lines (female)
More photos on other websites:Look for Trithemis_dorsalis on iNaturalist
UCT Animal Demography Unit Virtual Museum
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