Paragomphus sabicus

{{Short description|Species of dragonfly}}

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| image = Paragomphus sabicus 2012 12 02.jpg

| image_caption = Male

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Suhling, F. |author2=Clausnitzer, V. |date=2016 |title=Paragomphus sabicus |volume=2016 |page=e.T59981A85812410 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59981A85812410.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Paragomphus

| species = sabicus

| authority = Pinhey, 1950

| synonyms =

}}

Paragomphus sabicus, the Sabi hooktail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania,{{Cite journal |last=Clausnitzer |first=Viola |date=July 2006 |title=Dragonflies (Odonata) of Rufiji District, Tanzania with New Records for Tanzania |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2982/0012-8317%282006%2995%5B139%3ADOORDT%5D2.0.CO%3B2 |journal=Journal of East African Natural History |language=en |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=139–162 |doi=10.2982/0012-8317(2006)95[139:DOORDT]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0012-8317}} Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and rivers. The name comes from the Sabi Valley in modern Zimbabwe where the holotype specimens were collected in the late 1940s.{{Cite journal |last=Pinhey |first=E C G |date=Jan 1948 |title=New Species of Odonata from Southern Africa |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00411752_444 |journal=Annals of the Transvaal Museum |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=260–272}}

Paragomphus sabicus is similar in appearance to the rock hooktail (Paragomphus cognatus), but with a bright yellow face, and rust-colored markings on abdominal segments 8-9, orange markings on 10, and black folliations on females that are larger and marked with rust-colored lines on males.