Indolestes davenporti

Indolestes davenporti
Male, Kerala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Family:	Lestidae
Genus:	Indolestes
Species:	I. davenporti
Binomial name
Indolestes davenporti (Fraser, 1930)
Synonyms
Ceylonolestes davenportiFraser, 1930 Indolestes gracilis davenporti(Fraser, 1930)

Indolestes davenporti ^[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is known only from Western Ghats, south of Palakkad Gap. ^[2]

Fraser described this damselfly in 1930 as Ceylonolestes davenporti. ^[3] Later it was considered as a subspecies of Indolestes gracilis . Kimmins re-evaluated it as a good species, Indolestes davenporti. ^{[4] [1] [2]}

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with blue eyes. Its thorax is black on dorsum with a narrow blue mid-dorsal and broad ante-humeral stripes. The lower edge of the black is like a saw-tooth, followed by azure blue on the base of the lateral sides. Wings are transparent with black or dark reddish-brown pterostigma. Abdomen is azure blue on the sides, broadly black on dorsum up to the basal half of segment 9. The apical half of segment 9 and whole of segment 10 are azure blue. There is a black spot on each side of segment 10. Anal appendages are blue; black on old males. ^[5]

Female is similar to the male; differs only in the eye color and color of the last segments. Segment 9 is black. ^[5]

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  Male
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  Female
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  Young male
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  Tandem pair

It is found south of the Palakkad Gap, from 4,000 to 6,000 feet in Western Ghats. It is found around grassy edges of ponds, streams and marshes in the hills. ^{[3] [5] [6]}

See also

• List of odonates of India
• List of odonata of Kerala

References

1. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound . Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
2. 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. 32–33. ISBN   9788181714954.
3. Fraser, F. C. (1930). "Indian dragonflies. Part XXV". The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34: 96–97.
4. Kimmins (1966). "A list of the Odonata types described by F. C. Fraser, now in the British Museum (Natural History)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 18: 188.
5. 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. pp. 69–71.
6. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.

External links

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