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Sailing Bluet
Azuragrion nigridorsum
Azuragrion nigridorsum, the black-tailed bluet or sailing bluet, is a species of damselfly in family Coenagrionidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 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 dry lowland grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent...
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A common and widespread species with a range that extends from South Africa to Angola, Ethiopia, Oman, Yemen, Socotra, and Madagascar.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and status”
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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 95015.