Onychargia atrocyana

Onychargia atrocyana[3][1] a species damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. This species is commonly known as the marsh dancer or black marsh dart.[4][5] It is found in Asia: Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.[1][6]

Marsh dancer
Male
female

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Suborder:
Zygoptera
Family:
Platycnemididae[2]
Genus:
Onychargia
Species:
Onychargia atrocyana
Binomial name
Onychargia atrocyana
(Selys, 1865)

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with velvet-black head, thorax and black-capped brown eyes. The dorsum of the thorax has narrow citron-yellow ante humeral stripes in the sub-adult and teneral stage. The sides are citron-yellow, marked with a broad oblique black stripe over the postero-lateral suture in that stage. But all these marks are obscured by pruinescence in adults. Abdomen is black, unmarked in the adult; but with narrow bluish basal rings on segments 3 to 6. There are yellow marks on the lateral sides of segment 1 and 2 in sub-adults. Female is similar to the sub-adult male with yellow marks.[7]

It breeds in ponds and marshes in forests.[7][8][9][4][5]

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

References
  1. Dow, R.A. (2009). "Onychargia atrocyana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T163675A5634099. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163675A5634099.en.
  2. DIJKSTRA, KDB (2014). "Redefining the damselfly families: a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)". Systematic Entomology. 39: 68–96. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  4. "Onychargia atrocyana Selys, 1865". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  5. "Onychargia atrocyana Selys, 1865". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  6. 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. 120–121. ISBN 9788181714954.
  7. 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. 417-418.
  8. C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India with Special Remarks on the Genera Macromia and Idionyx and Descriptions of Thirty New Species (PDF). Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records). p. 489.
  9. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.

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