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Lucia Widow (male)

Palpopleura lucia

Photo by pamsai
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Very small to small, powdery blue body and extensive jet black patches, with undulating hind margins on all wings, and that run from wing bases to pterostigmas. Pools, marshes and sluggish reaches of streams inwarm areas.

Habitat:

Mbuluzi Game Reserve.

Garden ponds, natural pools, pans, swamps, marshes and, sluggish reaches of rivers with an abundance of grasses and reeds.

Notes:

Information extracted from "Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa" by Michael J Samways.

Species ID Suggestions

Lucia Widow

Palpopleura lucia

Comments (1)

This is the male, the female has similar wings, and a yellow/blackish brown striped body.

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