- Chalcostephia flavifrons
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Chalcostephia flavifrons 
Female Chalcostephia flavifrons Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Odonata Family: Libellulidae Genus: Chalcostephia Species: C. flavifrons Binomial name Chalcostephia flavifrons
Kirby, 1889Chalcostephia flavifrons, the Yellowface or Inspector, is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is the only species in its genus.[1]
It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.
References
- ^ Martin Schorr, Martin Lindeboom, Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list/. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- Clausnitzer, V. 2005. Chalcostephia flavifrons. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 August 2007.
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