Lestes malabaricus

Lestes malabaricus[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Sri Lanka, South India and Andaman Islands.[2][3][4]

Lestes malabaricus
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L. malabaricus
Binomial name
Lestes malabaricus
Fraser, 1929
Synonyms

Lestes malabarica Fraser, 1929

It looks very similar to Lestes elatus and can only be distinguished by the shape of the superior and inferior anal appendages, and by the absence of the ventro-lateral black spot on the thorax.[3]

See also

  • List of odonata of Kerala
  • Malabar region
  • Malabar Coast moist forests — ecoregion.

References

  1. "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  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. 38–39. ISBN 9788181714954.
  3. 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. 40–43.
  4. Fraser, F. C. (1929). "Indian dragonflies. Part XXXIV". The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34: 847–848.


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