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Little Scarlet

Crocothemis sanguinolenta

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 149, February 154, March 117, April 141, May 87, June 36, July 7, August 5, September 16, October 77, November 139, December 185.
South Africa1,113
Western Cape604
Mpumalanga143
Limpopo111
KwaZulu-Natal89
Gauteng46
Angola36
Eastern Cape34
Zambia21
Kenya9

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderDragonflies and Damselflies · Odonata
FamilySkimmers · Libellulidae
GenusScarlet Skimmers · Crocothemis

Sources

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