Fauna - Vertebrates

Trithemis dorsalis - Highland Dropwing

Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Odonata, Family: Libellulidae - Skimmers, Dropwings
Trithemis dorsalis
Highland Dropwing

More information on this species

Female

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)

body all blue, eyes dark purple-brown, lighter below (male)

yellow and brown, thorax with two pairs of diagonal wiggly black lines (female)

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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