Palpopleura deceptor

Taxobox
name = "Palpopleura deceptor"


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Odonata
familia = Libellulidae
genus = "Palpopleura"
species = "P. deceptor"
binomial = "Palpopleura deceptor"
binomial_authority = (Calvert, 1899)
synonyms =

"Palpopleura deceptor" is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

ource

* Clausnitzer, V. 2005. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/59967/all "Palpopleura deceptor"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 August 2007.