About Orthetrum hintzi Schmidt, 1951
Orthetrum hintzi, commonly known as the dark-shouldered skimmer, is a dragonfly species that belongs to the family Libellulidae. It was first described by Schmidt in 1951. This species has been confirmed to occur in Angola, Benin, Botswana, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and it may also be found in Burundi. Its natural habitats include subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.
