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File:Skimmer (Dragonfly) mating in air.jpg

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English: A pair of globe skimmers or wandering gliders (Pantala flavescens) copulating in mid-air during autumn in Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798.
This is a photo of a natural site in Nepal identified by the ID
NP-KAT-02
Date
Source Own work
Author Prasan Shrestha
Camera location27° 47′ 42″ N, 85° 23′ 24″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Captions

A pair of globe skimmers or wandering gliders (Pantala flavescens) copulating in mid-air during autumn in Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal

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Pantala flavescens

Anisoptera

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author name string: Prasan Shrestha
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copyright license

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

inception

10 September 2020

captured with

Sony α7R IV

exposure time

0.0005 second

f-number

8

focal length

600 millimetre

ISO speed

2,000

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photograph

source of file

original creation by uploader

Commons quality assessment

Wikimedia Commons quality image

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coordinates of the point of view

27°47'42"N, 85°23'24"E

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image/jpeg

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Wiki Loves Earth 2021

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