🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Red-veined Dropwing live?

Trithemis arteriosa has 19,658 records in 64 countries and territories, from 1891 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaOdonataLibellulidaeTrithemis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: December. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 13,353
Spain 1,104
Nigeria 519
Oman 454
Zambia 365
Eswatini 312
Türkiye 293
United Arab Emirates 292
Israel 253
Yemen 242
Cyprus 215
Kenya 191
Jordan 152
Angola 146
Greece 138
Malawi 138
Tanzania 138
Zimbabwe 127
Morocco 116
Saudi Arabia 86
Egypt 85
Ghana 84
Namibia 75
Mozambique 66
Palestine 60
Mayotte 55
Syria 54
Liberia 51
Lebanon 46
Uganda 43
Algeria 42
Benin 34
Rwanda 27
Botswana 25
Gambia 25
Gabon 24
Iran 21
Senegal 21
DR Congo 17
Sudan 17

Showing the top 40 of 64 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.