Tholymis tillarga

Tholymis tillarga,[3] the coral-tailed cloudwing,[4][5] is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae.[6] It is found from tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.[1][7][8][9][10] Common names include old world twister, evening skimmer, crepuscular darter, foggy-winged twister and twister.[1][11]

Tholymis tillarga
male
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Tholymis
Species:
T. tillarga
Binomial name
Tholymis tillarga
(Fabricius, 1798)[2]
Synonyms
  • Libellula bimaculata Desjardins, 1835
  • Libellula pallida Palisot de Beauvois, 1805
  • Libellula tillarga Fabricius, 1798
  • Tholymis paratillarga Singh & Prasad, 1980

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized dragonfly with reddish eyes, yellowish red thorax and coral red abdomen. Its wings are transparent; but hind wings have a golden-brown patch in the base, bordered by a cloudy-white patch. Female is brown and lacks the cloudy-white patch in the hind-wings.[12][13]

It is a migrant with a permanent presence in humid parts of the tropics. It breeds in standing water-bodies; and prefers weedy ponds, swamps and lakes. They are active at dusk and dawn, as well as during cloudy days.[12][4][5]

  • Male showing white patches in wings
  • Male
  • Male flying
  • Young male with little colouring in his wings
  • Young male viewed from under
  • Young male
  • Young female
  • Young female
  • Adult female
  • Old female
  • Females without white patches in wings
  • Female wings
  • Male wings

See also

References
  1. Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Tholymis tillarga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60048A83382535.
  2. Fabricius, J.C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae (in Latin). Hafniae : Proft et Storch. pp. 573 [285]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.65803 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  4. "Tholymis tillarga Fabricius, 1798". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  5. "Tholymis tillarga Fabricius, 1798". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  6. "Species Tholymis tillarga (Fabricius, 1798)". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  7. Wolfgang Schneider (1992). "Anax tristis Hagen, 1867 (Aeshnidae) and Tholymis tillarga (Fabricius, 1798) (Libellulidae) recorded from off Angola" (PDF). Fragmenta Entomologica. 23 (2): 243–246.
  8. Theischinger, Gunther; Endersby, Ian (2009). Identification Guide to the Australian Odonata (PDF). Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW. p. 239. ISBN 978 1 74232 475 3.
  9. Watson, J.A.L.; Theischinger, G.; Abbey, H.M. (1991). The Australian Dragonflies: A Guide to the Identification, Distributions and Habitats of Australian Odonata. Melbourne: CSIRO. p. 278. ISBN 0643051368.
  10. 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. 381–382. ISBN 9788181714954.
  11. Theischinger, G; Hawking, J (2006). The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. Collingwood Vic.: CSIRO Publishing. p. 288. ISBN 978 0 64309 073 6.
  12. 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. 411–413.
  13. C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species (PDF). pp. 443-442-443.

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