Highland Skimmer

Orthetrum machadoi · Order: Odonata · Family: Libellulidae

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Highland Skimmer
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The Highland Skimmer lives in a variety of wet and dry tropical habitats such as forests, shrublands, rivers, swamps and marshes. It is native to many African countries including Angola, Kenya, South Africa and others.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It inhabits subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry and moist shrublands, rivers, wetlands, swamps and both permanent and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Libellulidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthetrum_machadoi

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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