Chlorocypha granata (lat.) - a species of dragonflies from the family Chlorocyphidae . Equatorial Africa : Congo Kinshasa (Ubangi: Ebuku; Bomboma). Marshy forests at an altitude of 385 m [1] .
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Description
Medium-sized metal-shiny dragonflies of various colors (head black, chest and abdomen greenish-red-black, legs dark, labrum black). Body length about 2 cm, wings about 3 cm. Width of hind wing 21.0 - 22.0 mm. The species was first described in 2015 by entomologists Klaas -Douwe B. Dijkstra ; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden , Netherlands ), Jens Kipping ( Jens Kipping ; BioCart Environmental Consulting, Taucha / Leipzig , Germany ) and Nicolas Mézire ; Kourou , French Guiana ) [1] .
See also
- Chlorocypha maxima
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Jens Kipping & Nicolas Mézière. Sixty new dragonfly and damselfly species from Africa (Odonata) (English) // Odonatologica: Journal. - Wolnzach, Germany: Osmylus Scientific Publishers, 2015 .-- Vol. 44, no. 4 . - P. 447-678. - ISSN 0375-0183 .
Literature
- Pinhey ECG 1961. A survey of the dragon flies (order Odonata) of eastern Africa. - British Museum (Natural History), London.