The Amatola Malachite Chlorolestes apricans is a species of damselfly in the family Synlestidae. This damselfly is endemic to South Africa where it has a restricted range in the Eastern Cape Province. Chlorolestes apricans is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Link to the OdonataMAP record which contains the above photograph of an Amatola Malachite. The map below shows the distribution of records for Anax imperator in the OdonataMAP database, as at January 2020.

Use this link to embed this map of distribution records in OdonataMAP: http://thebdi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/660060-Amatola-Malachite-actual-records.png
The following map below is an imputed map, produced by an interpolation algorithm, which attempts to generate a full distribution map from the partial information in the map above. This map will be improved by the submission of records to the OdonataMAP section of the Virtual Museum
Use this link to embed this imputed distribution map: http://thebdi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/660060-Amatola-Malachite-imputed.png
The map below shows the imputed distribution which has been adjusted for terrain roughness



