Ictinogomphus ferox

Ictinogomphus ferox
Male, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Gomphidae
Genus: Ictinogomphus
Species:
I. ferox
Binomial name
Ictinogomphus ferox
(Rambur, 1842)

Ictinogomphus ferox, commonly called the common tiger or the common tigertail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, possibly Burundi, and possibly Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are 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, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs. In Algeria, it has also been recorded in the Algerian Sahara, in Tassili n'Ajjer National Park.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B. (2016). "Ictinogomphus ferox". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T59894A85585956. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59894A85585956.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Koulali; et al. (2026). "First record of the Afrotropical dragonfly Ictinogomphus ferox (Rambur, 1842) (Odonata, Gomphidae) from Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Algeria". Check List. 22 (3): 580–588. doi:10.15560/22.3.580.
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