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Thorntails
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Thorntails

Ceratogomphus

Ceratogomphus, commonly known as thorntails, is a small genus of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae found in southern Africa. The genus contains only two species:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Common Thorntail

speciesCeratogomphus pictus

Cape Thorntail

speciesCeratogomphus triceraticus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87301.