Dragonflies and Damselflies in Namibia
By Frank Suhlin & Andreas Martens
ISBN 9789991607641
Published by Namibia Publishing House in 2007
Dragonflies are fascinating insects, true jewels of the watershed. Their diversity in Namibia is surprisingly high for such an arid country. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Namibia describes 127 species and their distribution range, habitat, ecology and behaviour, while the identification keys cover not only the Namibian species, but also those of neighbouring Botswana and southern Angola, 149 species in all. The general overview of dragonfly biology and the species descriptions are extensively illustrated with 174 photographs, 27 plates with line drawings and 125 distribution maps. Frank Suhling is an associate professor of ecology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His main research interest is dragonfly larvae and communities. Andreas Martens is a professor of biology at Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany. His main research interest is the reproductive behaviour of dragonflies. Both authors have studied dragonflies for well over 20 years. Between 2000 and 2007 their research on Namibian Odonata formed part of the BIOTA AFRICA programme.
