Ivory Pintail

Acisoma trifidum · Order: Odonata · Family: Libellulidae

Also called: Pied Pintail

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The Ivory Pintail has dark eyes with a bluish-black hue and white jaws, while most of its body is black with a noticeable ivory patch on the upper middle of the abdomen. Its small terminal abdominal appendages share the ivory color of the abdominal patch, and the wing’s pterostigma is long and solid black. It lives near swamps and is native and widespread across Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Eyes are bluish-black with white jaws. Body is almost entirely black, except for a large ivory patch on the upper-middle abdomen. Terminal abdominal appendages are small and ivory-colored like the abdominal patch. The pterostigma on the wing is long and solid black.

Source: Wikipedia