17-12-2022 KARTONG, THE GAMBIA - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

 

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/107982-Orthetrum-trinacria

31-8-2022 ULLAL DE BALDOVI, ALBUFERA - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/107982-Orthetrum-trinacria

10-9-2021 GANDIA, VALENCIA - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/107982-Orthetrum-trinacria

 

28-7-2021 PEGO MARJAL, ALICANTE - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/107982-Orthetrum-trinacria

28-7-2021 PEGO MARJAL, ALICANTE - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/107982-Orthetrum-trinacria

6-10-2016 CATARROJA, VALENCIA - LONG SKIMMER DRAGONFLY (ORTHETRUM TRINACRIA)

Orthetrum trinacria, the Long Skimmer, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, France (Corsica), Gambia, Ghana, Italy (Sicily and Sardinia), Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. It was recently recorded in the Maltese Islands in 2003 and was recorded breeding on the island of Gozo in 2004. Its natural habitats are rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Also breeding in Southern Spain (Murcia and Malaga Provinces) and the Canary Islands.