Palpopleura portia

Taxobox
name = "Palpopleura portia"


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Odonata
familia = Libellulidae
genus = "Palpopleura"
species = "P. portia"
binomial = "Palpopleura portia"
binomial_authority = (Drury, 1773)
synonyms =

"Palpopleura portia" is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, and freshwater springs.

ource

* Clausnitzer, V. 2005. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/59970/all "Palpopleura portia"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 August 2007.