| Indolestes gracilis | |
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| Indolestes gracilis davenporti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Lestidae |
| Genus: | Indolestes |
| Species: | I. gracilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Indolestes gracilis (Hagen in Selys, 1862)
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Indolestes gracilis[2][1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is known only from Sri Lanka, South India[1] and Cambodia.[3]
Subspecies
There are three recognized subspecies.[1]
- Indolestes gracilis gracilis - from Sri Lanka[1]
- Indolestes gracilis davenporti - from South India[4][5][1][6][2][7]
- Indolestes gracilis expressior - from Cambodia[3]
Indolestes gracilis birmanus (Selys, 1891) described from Myanmar is now considered as a distinct species, Indolestes birmanus.[4]
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.[8]
Female is similar to the male; differs only in the eye color and color of the last segments. Segment 9 is black.[8]
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Male
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Female
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Young male
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Tandem pair
Habitat
Indolestes gracilis gracilis is found in hill tracts up to 6,000 feet in Sri Lanka. Indolestes gracilis davenporti is found south of the Palakkad Gap, from 4,000 to 6,000 feet in Western Ghats.[8][9][10][11] Indolestes gracilis expressior is found from 1600 to 4500 feet in evergreen forest in eastern Cambodia.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Dow, R.A. (2010). "Indolestes gracilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T169134A6571794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T169134A6571794.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ a b c Oleg E. Kosterin (2015). "Taxonomical notes on Indolestes Fraser, 1922 (Lestidae, Zygoptera). 1. Indolestes gracilis expressior ssp. nov. from eastern Cambodia" (PDF). Journal of the International Dragonfly Fund. 81: 1–11. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ a b Oleg E. Kosterin; Roberto Poggi (2015). "Taxonomical notes on Indolestes Fraser, 1922 (Lestidae, Zygoptera). 2. Indolestes birmanus (Selys, 1891) is bona species" (PDF). Journal of the International Dragonfly Fund. 81: 13–20. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ Kalkman, V. J.; Babu, R.; Bedjanič, M.; Conniff, K.; Gyeltshenf, T.; Khan, M. K.; Subramanian, K. A.; Zia, A.; Orr, A. G. (2020-09-08). "Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka". Zootaxa. Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand. 4849 (1): 001–084. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4849.1.1. hdl:10072/398768. ISBN 978-1-77688-047-8. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33056748. S2CID 222819662.
- ^ Kimmins (1966). "Lestes (Indolestes) davenporti". Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 18: 188.
- ^ 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 978-81-8171-495-4.
- ^ a b c 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. 65–71.
- ^ Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.
- ^ "Indolestes gracilis Hagen in Selys, 1862". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- ^ "Indolestes gracilis Hagen in Selys, 1862". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Indolestes_gracilis/classification/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150219172210/http://www.wht.lk/storage/book_downloads/CorrigendaAddendum.pdf
- http://www.wildreach.com/reptile/animals/dragonflies.php
- http://srilankanodonata.blogspot.com/
- http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227456
External links
Data related to Indolestes gracilis at Wikispecies
Media related to Indolestes gracilis at Wikimedia Commons
This page was last edited on 26 October 2023, at 04:40