Orthetrum trinacria

{{short description|Species of dragonfly}}

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| image = Orthetrum trinacria eats Ischnura elegans.jpg

| image_caption = Male eats a Blue-tailed damselfly

| image2 = Long skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria) female.jpg

| taxon = Orthetrum trinacria

| authority = (Selys, 1841)

| image2_caption = Female
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Boudot, J.-P. |author2=Clausnitzer, V. |author3=Samraoui, B. |author4=Suhling, F. |author5=Dijkstra, K.-D.B. |date=2016 |title=Orthetrum trinacria |volume=2016 |page=e.T59965A83859517 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59965A83859517.en |access-date=14 November 2021}}

| synonyms = Libellula trinacria Selys, 1841

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web | url = http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=7905 | title = Species summary for Orthetrum trinacria | access-date = 14 October 2019 | website = Animalbase}}

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Orthetrum trinacria, the Long Skimmer, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, France (Corsica), Gambia, Ghana, Italy (Sicily and Sardinia), Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. It was recently recorded in the Maltese Islands in 2003 and was recorded breeding on the island of Gozo in 2004. Its natural habitats are rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Also breeding in Southern Spain (Murcia and Malaga Provinces) and the Canary Islands.