About Orthetrum brachiale (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817)
Orthetrum brachiale, commonly known as the tough skimmer or strong skimmer, is a species of dragonfly belonging to the family Libellulidae. It has been recorded in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its presence is possible but unconfirmed in Burundi and São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitats include subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
