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smokey wingtips (1 Viewer)

Hillevandam

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Can somebody tell me if the smokey wingtips are a distinct feature to identify a species or if this feature can happen in any species as a optional extra to confuse the amateur entemologist? I see it in one Orthretum species here but I cannot find species with both these colours and the smokey wing tips at the same time.(It may just be because insect pictures from Africa are not that common on the web) What dragonflies are these?
1,2 same female
3,4 same male (same or different species?)
Photo 1-4 were taken in the same farmbush on 8 April
5 This male with distinct yellow windows on the side was taken two weeks later.

As far as I am concerned they could all be Orthretum species but for the wingtips.
 

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