Common Hooktail Male-b Close-up

Common Hooktail, Paragomphus genei, Gewone Hakiestert

Common Hooktail Male-b Close-up images for the identification of dragonflies species Common Hooktail Paragomphus genei Gewone Hakiestert

 

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Distribution:

South Africa:

• Recorded from the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, but abundant records from KZN, MP, GP and LP 

Africa:

• Algeria; Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Côte d'Ivoire; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Nigeria; Republic of South Africa; Sierra Leone; Socotra (Yemen); Somalia; Sudan; Tanzania; Togo; Tunisia; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Further reading:

Websites

•    A Visual Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of South Africa
•   The IUCN red list of Threatened Species