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Dragonflies from Ghana, for help with ID. (1 Viewer)

Andy Adcock

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Resources are sadly lacking for most groups, I've managed to do most of the butterflies we saw but these all elude me.
 

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First one is Olpogastra lugubris and the last one is not a dragonfly but a mantis of the genus Pseudocreobotra. Not sure about others...
 
First one is Olpogastra lugubris and the last one is not a dragonfly but a mantis of the genus Pseudocreobotra. Not sure about others...
Many thanks,
sorry for being vague, I was aware that the other was not a Dragonfly but hadn't noticed that it's a Mantid.
 
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Those tropical mantids often quite odd shapes and patterns, I understand that sometimes it's difficult to tell what they are 😅
The fifth one seems to be Neodythemis klingi...For the other two (I assume pics 3&4 are the same individual ?), I think they might well be Orthetrum species but not sure yet...
 

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