Idionyx rhinoceroides

Idionyx rhinoceroides[2] is a species of dragonfly in the family Synthemistidae. It is known only from a single female collected from type locality (Dhoni, Palakkad, Kerala) in the Western Ghats of India.[3][1]

Idionyx rhinoceroides

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Synthemistidae
Genus:
Idionyx
Species:
I. rhinoceroides
Binomial name
Idionyx rhinoceroides
Fraser, 1934

Description

It is a small dragonfly with emerald-green eyes. Its thorax is metallic emerald-green, coated with yellow hairs on dorsum. Humeral stripe is absent. There is a narrow oblique citron-yellow stripe traversing the spiracle and another bordering the lower part of metepimeron. Beneath the side is yellow, with an oblique bluish-black stripe and a triangular blackish-brown spot. Abdomen is black. The ventral borders of segments 2 and 3 are citron-yellow.[4]

This species can be easily distinguished from all other species by the unique shape of its vesicle.[4]

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See also
  • List of odonates of India
  • List of odonata of Kerala

References
  1. Subramanian, K.A. (2011). "Idionyx rhinoceroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T175189A7119364.
  2. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  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. 270–271. ISBN 9788181714954.
  4. 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. 230–231.


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