Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae > Brachythemis > Brachythemis leucosticta

Brachythemis leucosticta (Four-square Groundling)

Synonyms: Brachythemis unifasciata; Libellula leucosticta (homotypic); Libellula unifasciata

Wikipedia Abstract

Brachythemis leucosticta, the banded groundling, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Spain, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
View Wikipedia Record: Brachythemis leucosticta

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Torre Manfria, Biviere e Piana di Gela 44096 Italy  

Predators

Bagrus docmak (Sudan catfish)[1]
Protopterus aethiopicus (marbled lungfish)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0