Lestes patricia

Lestes patricia[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Western Ghats in India.[2]

Lestes patricia
Male from Satara district, Maharashtra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Suborder:
Zygoptera
Family:
Lestidae
Genus:
Lestes
Species:
L. patricia
Binomial name
Lestes patricia
Fraser, 1924

Fraser described this species from a single male specimen collected from Kodagu district of Karnataka.[3] A colony of this species is rediscovered from Satara district of Maharashtra in 2020 and specimens are deposited at Bombay Natural History Society for further studies.[4]

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with blue eyes. Thorax is bluish green on dorsum, changing to greenish white on the sides. The dorsum of thorax is marked with a pair of broad ante-humeral black stripes with straight borders. There are two pairs of tiny black spots on the lateral sides. Its abdomen is pale bluish green, marked with black. Anal appendages are black. This species can be easily distinguished from other Indian Lestes species by the single mid-dorsal black band with straight borders.[3][5][6]

  • Male (lateral view)
  • Female (dorsal view)
  • Female (lateral view)
  • Male (marks on thorax)
  • Female (marks on thorax)
  • Ovipositing pair

See also

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. p. 42. 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. 47-48.
  4. Bhakare, Shriram Dinkar; Bhoite, Sunil; Ashok, Pawar Pratima (2020). "Lestes patricia taamrpatti ssp. nova (Insecta: Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India". Bionotes. 22 (2): 85–91. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.18751.53925. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  5. 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. 486.
  6. Kosterin, O. (2019). "Amendments and updates to F.C. Fraser's key to Indian Lestes spp. (Odonata: Lestidae) to resolve confusion of L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and L. nigriceps Fraser, 1924, with notes on L. nodalis Selys 1891 and L. garoensis Lahiri, 1987". Zootaxa. 4671 (2): 297–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.12. PMID 31716063. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
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