Biology:Palpopleura sexmaculata

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Short description: Species of dragonfly

Palpopleura sexmaculata
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Male
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Palpopleura
Species:
P. sexmaculata
Binomial name
Palpopleura sexmaculata
(Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
  • Aeshna minuta Fabricius, 1787
  • Palpopleura minuta (Fabricius, 1787)

Palpopleura sexmaculata,[2] commonly known as the Asian widow or blue-tailed yellow skimmer,[3][4] is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is widespread in several countries in South, East and Southeast Asia, but is no longer believed to occur in Sri Lanka.[5][6]

Description and habitat

It is a small dragonfly with brown capped greenish eyes. Its thorax is greenish yellow and hind-wings usually tinted with yellow from the base. Pterostigma is black in adults bi-colored in juveniles and sub-adults as in females. Its abdomen is pruinosed with light blue, leaving segments 1-3 as yellow. Sub-adult males and females are yellow. The pterostigma of the female are bi-colored with half black and half yellow. It breeds in marshy areas and small pools in the hills.[7][8][3][4]

  • Young male
  • Female

See also

  • List of odonates of Sri Lanka
  • List of odonates of India
  • List of odonata of Kerala

References

  1. ↑ Dow, R.A. (2009). "Palpopleura sexmaculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T163719A5641056. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163719A5641056.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/163719/5641056. Retrieved 19 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". India Biodiversity Portal. http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/227951. Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/619/Palpopleura-sexmaculata. Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
  5. ↑ Van der Poorten, N. (2011). Agrion Newsletter of the worldwide dragonfly association, Vol. 15, No. 2
  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. 363-364. ISBN 9788181714954. 
  7. ↑ 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. 318-320. https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3. 
  8. ↑ C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species. pp. 433-434. http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2015855 entry




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