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  • Home
  • Damselflies
    • Bluetails
      • Tropical Bluetail
    • Bluets
      • Mauve Bluet
      • Peak Bluet
      • Round-winged Bluet
      • Sailing Bluet
      • Saphire Bluet
      • Slender Bluet
      • Swamp Bluet
    • Citrils
      • Common Citril
      • Suave Citril
    • Demoiselles
      • Glistening Demoiselle
    • Goldtail
      • Goldtails
    • Jewels
      • Boulder Jewel
      • Dancing Jewel
    • Malachites
      • Amatola Malachite
      • Conspicuous Malachite
      • Drakensberg Malachite
      • Elegant Malachite
      • Forest Malachite
      • Mountain Malachite
      • Queen Malachite
      • Rock Malachite
      • Rainforest Malachite
      • White Malachite
    • Slims
      • Graceful Slim
      • Opal Slim
    • Spesbona
      • Spesbona
    • Spreadwings
      • Cryptic Spreadwing
      • Highland Spreadwing
      • Pallid Spreadwing
      • Sickle Spreadwing
      • Smoky Spreadwing
      • Spotted Spreadwing
    • Sprites (A-Group)
      • Balinsky's Sprite
      • Great Sprite
      • Harlequin Sprite
      • Makabisi Sprite
      • Mountain Sprite
      • Painted Sprite
      • Palmiet Sprite
      • Powder-faced Sprite
      • Slate Sprite
      • Springwater Sprite
      • Upland Sprite
      • Yellow-faced Sprite
    • Sprites (B-Group)
      • Acasia Sprite
      • Assegai Sprite
      • Black Sprite
      • Blue-sided Sprite
      • Castshead Sprite
      • Cherry-eyed Sprite
      • Massai Sprite
      • Swarthy Sprite
      • Vaal Sprite
      • Variable Sprite
    • Riverjacks
      • Blue Riverjack
      • Savanna Riverjack
    • Threadtails
      • Common Threadtail
      • Sooty Threadtail
    • Wisps
      • Gracious Wisp
      • Little Wisp
      • Orange Wisp
      • Pinhey’s Wisp
      • White-masked Wisp
  • Dragonflies
    • African Darters
      • Fiery Darter
      • Sooty Darter
    • Baskers
      • Blue Basker
      • Pygmy Basker
      • Red Basker
      • St Lucia Basker
    • Blacktails
      • Eastern Blacktail
    • Bottletail
      • Bottletail
    • Cascaders
      • Blue Cascader
      • Ringed Cascader, Zygonyx torridus
    • Clubtails
      • Thorax Patterns
      • Leaftails
        • Bold Leaftail
      • Talontails
        • Clubbed Talontail
        • Horned Talontail
      • Tigertail
        • Common Tigertail
      • Scissortails
        • Eastern Scissortail
      • Claspertails
        • Lined Claspertail
      • Fingertails
        • Southern Fingertail
      • Fairytails
        • Spined Fairytail
      • Hooktails
        • Common Hooktail
        • Corkscrew Hooktail
        • Flapper Hooktail
        • Great Hooktail
        • Rock Hooktail
        • Comparison Chart
      • Thorntails
        • Cape Thorntail
        • Common Thorntail
      • Longlegs (Yellowjack)
        • Yellowjack Longlegs
      • Siphontail
        • Zambezi Siphontail
    • Coastal Pennant
      • Coastal Penant
    • Cruisers
      • Darting Cruiser
      • Sable Cruiser
      • Two-Banded Cruiser
    • Dropwings
      • Comparison Females
      • Denim Dropwing
      • Elegant Dropwing
      • Halfshade Dropwing
      • Highland Dropwing
      • Jaunty Dropwing
      • Navy Dropwing
      • Orange-winged Dropwing
      • Red-veined Dropwing
      • Russet Dropwing
      • Silhouette Dropwing
      • Violet Dropwing
    • Duskdarter
      • Banded Duskdarter
      • Smoky Duskdarter
    • Duskhawkers
      • Brown Duskhawker
      • Eastern Duskhawker
      • Little Duskhawker
    • Elfs
      • Black-splashed Elf
    • Emerald
      • Emeralds
    • Emperors
      • Black Emperor
      • Blue Emperor
      • Orange Emperor
      • Vagrant Emperor
    • Flutterers
      • Phantom Flutterer
    • Forestwatcher
      • Eastern Forestwatcher
    • Gliders
      • Comparison Chart Gliders
      • Keyhole Glider
      • Ferruginous Glider
    • Groundlings
      • Southern Banded Groundling
      • Red Groundling
    • Hawkers
      • Evening Hawker
      • Forest Hawker
      • Friendly Hawker
      • Stream Hawker
    • Inspector
      • Inspector
    • Nomad
      • Nomad
    • Pantala
      • Pantala
    • Perchers
      • Barbet Percher
      • Black Percher
      • Dwarf Percher
      • Little Percher
    • Piedspot
      • African Piedspot
    • Pintails
      • Pintails Differences
      • Slender Pintail
      • Stout Pintail
    • Presbas
      • Gilded Presba
      • Mahogany Presba
      • Rustic Presba
      • Yellow Presba
    • Riverkings
      • Southern Riverking
    • Rockdwellers
      • Horned Rockdweller
      • Red Rockdweller
    • Scarlets
      • Broad Scarlet
      • Little Scarlet
      • Rock Scarlet
    • Skimmers
      • Banded Skimmer
      • Bold Skimmer
      • Dark-shouldered Skimmer
      • Elusive Skimmer
      • Epaulet Skimmer
      • Guinea Skimmer
      • Highland Skimmer
      • Julia Skimmer
      • Cape Skimmer
      • Little Skimmer
      • Long Skimmer
      • Robust Skimmer
      • Spectacled Skimmer
      • Two-striped Skimmer
      • Woodland Skimmer
    • Twister
      • Twister
    • Widows
      • Compare Females
      • Deceptive Widow
      • Lucia Widow
      • Portia Widow
      • Yellow-veined Widow
  • What am I
    • What am I - Quick Guide
    • What am I - Dragonfly
    • What am I - Damselfly
    • Damselfly Families Southern Africa
    • Dragonfly Families Southern Africa
    • What Am I - Clubtails
    • What Am I - Dropwings
  • Index
    • Common Names Damselflies
    • Common Names Dragonflies
    • Scientific Names Damselflies
    • Scientific Names Dragonflies

Bluetail

Tropical Bluetail

Bluets

Mauve Bluet

Peak Bluet

Round-winged Bluet

Sailing Bluet

Sapphire Bluet

Slender Bluet

Swamp Bluet

Citrils

Common Citril

Suave Citril

Demoiselles

Glistening Demoiselle

Goldtail

Goldtail

Jewels

Dancing Jewel

Boulder Jewel

Malachites

Amatola Malachite

Conspicuous Malachite

Drakensberg Malachite

Elegant Malachite

Forest Malachite

Mountain Malachite

Queen Malachite

White Malachite

Rock Malachite

Riverjacks

Savanna Riverjack

Blue Riverjack

Slims

Graceful Slim

Spesbona

Spesbona

Spreadwings

Cryptic Spreadwing

Highland Spreadwing

Pallid Spreadwing

Sickle Spreadwing

Smoky Spreadwing

Spotted Spreadwing

Sprites

Sprites (A-Group)

Balinsky’s Sprite

Great Sprite

Harlequin Sprite

Makabusi Sprite

Painted Sprite

Palmiet Sprite

Mountain Sprite

Slate Sprite

Springwater Sprite

Upland Sprite

Yellow-faced Sprite

Powder-faced Sprite

Sprites (B-Group)

Acacia Sprite

Assegai Sprite

Blue-sided Sprite

Catshead Sprite

Cherry-eye Sprite

Masai Sprite

Swarthy Sprite

Variable Sprite

Vaal Sprite

Threadtails

Sooty Threadtail

Common Threadtail

Wisps

Little Wisp

Orange Wisp

White-masked Wisp

  • Home
  • Damselflies
    • Bluetails
      • Tropical Bluetail
    • Bluets
      • Mauve Bluet
      • Peak Bluet
      • Round-winged Bluet
      • Sailing Bluet
      • Saphire Bluet
      • Slender Bluet
      • Swamp Bluet
    • Citrils
      • Common Citril
      • Suave Citril
    • Demoiselles
      • Glistening Demoiselle
    • Goldtail
      • Goldtails
    • Jewels
      • Boulder Jewel
      • Dancing Jewel
    • Malachites
      • Amatola Malachite
      • Conspicuous Malachite
      • Drakensberg Malachite
      • Elegant Malachite
      • Forest Malachite
      • Mountain Malachite
      • Queen Malachite
      • Rock Malachite
      • Rainforest Malachite
      • White Malachite
    • Slims
      • Graceful Slim
      • Opal Slim
    • Spesbona
      • Spesbona
    • Spreadwings
      • Cryptic Spreadwing
      • Highland Spreadwing
      • Pallid Spreadwing
      • Sickle Spreadwing
      • Smoky Spreadwing
      • Spotted Spreadwing
    • Sprites (A-Group)
      • Balinsky's Sprite
      • Great Sprite
      • Harlequin Sprite
      • Makabisi Sprite
      • Mountain Sprite
      • Painted Sprite
      • Palmiet Sprite
      • Powder-faced Sprite
      • Slate Sprite
      • Springwater Sprite
      • Upland Sprite
      • Yellow-faced Sprite
    • Sprites (B-Group)
      • Acasia Sprite
      • Assegai Sprite
      • Black Sprite
      • Blue-sided Sprite
      • Castshead Sprite
      • Cherry-eyed Sprite
      • Massai Sprite
      • Swarthy Sprite
      • Vaal Sprite
      • Variable Sprite
    • Riverjacks
      • Blue Riverjack
      • Savanna Riverjack
    • Threadtails
      • Common Threadtail
      • Sooty Threadtail
    • Wisps
      • Gracious Wisp
      • Little Wisp
      • Orange Wisp
      • Pinhey’s Wisp
      • White-masked Wisp
  • Dragonflies
    • African Darters
      • Fiery Darter
      • Sooty Darter
    • Baskers
      • Blue Basker
      • Pygmy Basker
      • Red Basker
      • St Lucia Basker
    • Blacktails
      • Eastern Blacktail
    • Bottletail
      • Bottletail
    • Cascaders
      • Blue Cascader
      • Ringed Cascader, Zygonyx torridus
    • Clubtails
      • Thorax Patterns
      • Leaftails
        • Bold Leaftail
      • Talontails
        • Clubbed Talontail
        • Horned Talontail
      • Tigertail
        • Common Tigertail
      • Scissortails
        • Eastern Scissortail
      • Claspertails
        • Lined Claspertail
      • Fingertails
        • Southern Fingertail
      • Fairytails
        • Spined Fairytail
      • Hooktails
        • Common Hooktail
        • Corkscrew Hooktail
        • Flapper Hooktail
        • Great Hooktail
        • Rock Hooktail
        • Comparison Chart
      • Thorntails
        • Cape Thorntail
        • Common Thorntail
      • Longlegs (Yellowjack)
        • Yellowjack Longlegs
      • Siphontail
        • Zambezi Siphontail
    • Coastal Pennant
      • Coastal Penant
    • Cruisers
      • Darting Cruiser
      • Sable Cruiser
      • Two-Banded Cruiser
    • Dropwings
      • Comparison Females
      • Denim Dropwing
      • Elegant Dropwing
      • Halfshade Dropwing
      • Highland Dropwing
      • Jaunty Dropwing
      • Navy Dropwing
      • Orange-winged Dropwing
      • Red-veined Dropwing
      • Russet Dropwing
      • Silhouette Dropwing
      • Violet Dropwing
    • Duskdarter
      • Banded Duskdarter
      • Smoky Duskdarter
    • Duskhawkers
      • Brown Duskhawker
      • Eastern Duskhawker
      • Little Duskhawker
    • Elfs
      • Black-splashed Elf
    • Emerald
      • Emeralds
    • Emperors
      • Black Emperor
      • Blue Emperor
      • Orange Emperor
      • Vagrant Emperor
    • Flutterers
      • Phantom Flutterer
    • Forestwatcher
      • Eastern Forestwatcher
    • Gliders
      • Comparison Chart Gliders
      • Keyhole Glider
      • Ferruginous Glider
    • Groundlings
      • Southern Banded Groundling
      • Red Groundling
    • Hawkers
      • Evening Hawker
      • Forest Hawker
      • Friendly Hawker
      • Stream Hawker
    • Inspector
      • Inspector
    • Nomad
      • Nomad
    • Pantala
      • Pantala
    • Perchers
      • Barbet Percher
      • Black Percher
      • Dwarf Percher
      • Little Percher
    • Piedspot
      • African Piedspot
    • Pintails
      • Pintails Differences
      • Slender Pintail
      • Stout Pintail
    • Presbas
      • Gilded Presba
      • Mahogany Presba
      • Rustic Presba
      • Yellow Presba
    • Riverkings
      • Southern Riverking
    • Rockdwellers
      • Horned Rockdweller
      • Red Rockdweller
    • Scarlets
      • Broad Scarlet
      • Little Scarlet
      • Rock Scarlet
    • Skimmers
      • Banded Skimmer
      • Bold Skimmer
      • Dark-shouldered Skimmer
      • Elusive Skimmer
      • Epaulet Skimmer
      • Guinea Skimmer
      • Highland Skimmer
      • Julia Skimmer
      • Cape Skimmer
      • Little Skimmer
      • Long Skimmer
      • Robust Skimmer
      • Spectacled Skimmer
      • Two-striped Skimmer
      • Woodland Skimmer
    • Twister
      • Twister
    • Widows
      • Compare Females
      • Deceptive Widow
      • Lucia Widow
      • Portia Widow
      • Yellow-veined Widow
  • What am I
    • What am I - Quick Guide
    • What am I - Dragonfly
    • What am I - Damselfly
    • Dragonfly Families Southern Africa
    • Damselfly Families Southern Africa
    • What Am I - Clubtails
    • What Am I - Dropwings
  • Index
    • Common Names Damselflies
    • Common Names Dragonflies
    • Scientific Names Damselflies
    • Scientific Names Dragonflies