Palpopleura lucia

{{Short description|Species of dragonfly}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Lucia widow (Palpopleura lucia) male Principe.jpg

| image_caption = Male, São Tomé and Príncipe

| image2 = Lucia Female 2.jpg

| image2_caption = Female

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Clausnitzer, V. |author2=Dijkstra, K.-D.B. |author3=Suhling, F. |date=2016 |title=Palpopleura lucia |volume=2016 |page=e.T59969A85934730 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59969A85934730.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Palpopleura

| species = lucia

| authority = (Drury, 1773)

| synonyms =

}}

File:Lucia widow (Palpopleura lucia) immature male Ankasa.jpg]]

Palpopleura lucia, the Lucia widow, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.