Idionyx minimus

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Idionyx minimus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Corduliidae
Genus:
Idionyx
Species:
I. minimus
Binomial name
Idionyx minimus
Fraser, 1931
Synonyms

Idionyx minima Fraser, 1931 (Missp.)

Idionyx minimus [2] is a species of dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. It is known only from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. [3] [1]

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Description and habitat

It is a small dragonfly with emerald-green eyes. Its thorax is metallic green, changing on the lower parts of sides to metallic blue. The humeral stripe absent, but there is a narrow oblique citron-yellow stripe on each side and a similar stripe on the posterior border of metepimeron. Abdomen is black. Segment 10 strongly keeled; but without a dorsal spine. Anal appendages are black. [4]

Fraser (1936) states that he took a few specimens of both sexes flying among tea off the Munnar Ghat road during June. It is the smallest species of the genus and is closely related to Idionyx saffronatus and to Idionyx galeatus by the shape of the anal appendages, and especially that of the superiors, with the characteristic row of minute teeth beneath near the base. The glossy jet-black labium will serve to distinguish it at once from all of these species. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dow, R.A. (2009). "Idionyx minima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2009: e.T163633A5627291. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163633A5627291.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama . Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
  3. ↑ K.A., Subramanian; K.G., Emiliyamma; R., Babu; C., Radhakrishnan; S.S., Talmale (2018). Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India. Zoological Survey of India. pp. 266–267. ISBN   9788181714954.
  4. 1 2 C FC Lt. Fraser (1936). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. III. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London: Taylor and Francis. pp.  225-226.
  5. ↑ C FC Lt. Fraser (1931). Additions to the Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India, with Descriptions of Nine New Species (PDF). pp. 454–455.


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