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Lindenia tetraphylla adult male from the discovered population in Tunesia |
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Lindenia tetraphylla copula |
Lindenia tetraphylla rediscovered in North Africa
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a period
of more than 150 years Lindenia tetraphylla has been recorded in the
Magreb again. The finding place is near a reservoir in central Tunesia: its
an artificial pond near the the south-eastern
shore of the Barrage el Habib, halfway Kairouan and Sbeitla, north of
the R.N. 3.
On 5 June 2000 the first two males were seen. A few days later (8 June 2000) on 35 m shore length 15 males, a few females and a copula were found. The individuals observed were conspicuously dark, conform their older age. On a visit a year later (25 May 2001) on the same locality three exuviae and a freshly emerged adult were found. This is the first breeding record of this species in Africa. The last and only record of Lindenia tetraphylla in Africa was done in Algeria at Lacalle (El Kala) in 1846: three females cought in the vegetation far away from water. The Tunesian checklist of dragonflies is with this species enlarged to 53 species.. |
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Lindenia tetraphylla adult male from the discovered population in Tunesia |
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Lindenia tetraphylla copula |
Bernd Kunz & Doris Kunz , Hauptstr. 111 74595 Langenburg, Germany