Biology:Platylestes platystylus
| Platylestes platystylus | |
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| Male | |
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| Female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Lestidae |
| Genus: | Platylestes |
| Species: | P. platystylus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platylestes platystylus (Rambur, 1842)
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| Synonyms | |
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Lestes platystyla Rambur, 1842 | |
Description and habitat
It is a small dull colored damselfly of the size of Lestes. Its prothorax and thorax are in palest khaki brown color, paler at the sides and pruinosed white beneath. There are a large number of black spots on the thorax. Its wings are palely enfumed with short and broad pterostigma having white or pale inner and outer ends. Its abdomen is in olivaceous to warm reddish brown in color with black apical rings on each segments. Anal appendages are whitish with the superiors black at base, curling in at apices to meet each other. Inferior appendages are about half the length and thick at base.[2][3]
Female closely resembles the male in most respects, differing mainly in sexual characters. Anal appendages are yellow, blackish brown at the base, and as long as segment 10.[2]
The small black spots on each side of thorax and quadrate pterostigma with white at both ends are the most distinguishing features of this damselfly compared to other spreadwings.[2]
Dorsal view of male, showing black spots on thorax
Lateral view of male
Female
Terminal abdominal appendages of male
Ventral view of terminal abdominal appendages of male
Wing details. Note the quadrate pterostigma with white at both ends
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See also
- List of odonates of India
- List of odonata of Kerala
References
- ↑ Sharma, G. (2010). "Platylestes platystylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T167261A6319472. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T167261A6319472.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/167261/6319472. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. 59–61. https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1.
- ↑ Jules Pierre Rambur (1842) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Névroptères. Paris. Roret. page: 254 (through HathiTrust)
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q634872 entry
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