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Palpopleura lucia
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.
Mbuluzi Game Reserve. Garden ponds, natural pools, pans, swamps, marshes and, sluggish reaches of rivers with an abundance of grasses and reeds.
Information extracted from "Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa" by Michael J Samways.
This is the male, the female has similar wings, and a yellow/blackish brown striped body.
Spotted on Mar 27, 2014
Submitted on Apr 4, 2014
