Lucia Widow

Palpopleura lucia

"Palpopleura lucia" is a species of dragonfly found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi.
irridescent Dragonfly I snapped this photo during my lunch break at work, luckily I had my camera with me and this dragonfly was happy to pose for a little while! Dragonfly,Geotagged,Palpopleura lucia,Spring,Zimbabwe

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderOdonata
FamilyLibellulidae
GenusPalpopleura
SpeciesP. lucia
Photographed in
Gabon
Sao Tome and Principe
Zimbabwe