Urothemis edwardsii

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Urothemis edwardsii
Male in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Urothemis
Species:
U. edwardsii
Binomial name
Urothemis edwardsii
(Selys, 1849)

Urothemis edwardsii, the blue basker, is a species of

Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes
, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Male in obelisk posture; Kasane area, Botswana

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