Aciagrion hisopa

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Aciagrion hisopa
Aciagrion hisopa male by Pankaj Koparde.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Aciagrion
Species:
A. hisopa
Binomial name
Aciagrion hisopa
(Sélys, 1876)
Synonyms
  • Pseudagrion hisopaSélys, 1876
  • Aciagrion krishnaFraser, 1921
  • Aciagrion aciculareLieftinck, 1929

Aciagrion hisopa, is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is abundant in many South Asian countries, but populations in Sri Lanka is still in doubt.

Fraser considered the specimen found in Western Ghats as Aciargion hisopa race krishna. [2] A recent study revealed that the subspecies krishna found in Western Ghats is not conspecific with A. hisopa and found to be very close to A. approximans found in Northeast India; but differing at the level of subspecies. [3]

Sources

  1. Dow, R.A. (2009). "Aciagrion hisopa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2009: e.T163798A5653206. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163798A5653206.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. C FC Lt. Fraser (1933). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London: Taylor and Francis.
  3. Shantanu Shrikant Joshi; Oleg Kosterin; Krushnamegh Kunte (2016). "New status for Fraser's forgotten Aciagrion approximans krishna, stat. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) from theWestern Ghats of India". International Journal of Odonatology. 19 (1–2): 41–51. doi:10.1080/13887890.2016.1166463. S2CID   89121135 . Retrieved 25 February 2017.


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