Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa

"This is the greatest number of new dragonfly and damselfly species to be formally described at the same time in 130 years"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#Dragonflies #Damselflies #Evolution #Ecology #NewSpecies https://grrlscientist.medium.com/sixty-new-species-of-dragonflies-discovered-in-africa-3d7c6931de3e

Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa

"This is the greatest number of new dragonfly and damselfly species to be formally described at the same time in 130 years"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#Dragonflies #Damselflies #Evolution #Ecology #NewSpecies https://grrlscientist.medium.com/sixty-new-species-of-dragonflies-discovered-in-africa-3d7c6931de3e

Sixty New Species of Dragonflies Discovered in Africa

"This is the greatest number of new dragonfly and damselfly species to be formally described at the same time in 130 years"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#Dragonflies #Damselflies #Evolution #Ecology #NewSpecies https://grrlscientist.medium.com/sixty-new-species-of-dragonflies-discovered-in-africa-3d7c6931de3e

#DRAGONFLIES AND #DAMSELFLIES

ORDER ODONATA

MATH

BANBELPLISA TWITH

Stoked to see this journal cover of PNAS with one of my photos: a mating pair of Swamp Bluet (Africallagma glaucum) from Harold Porter Botanical Garden in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, photographed in 2011.

#Odonata #odonataoftheworld #damselflies #EvolutionaryBiology #naturephotography #pnas