Biology:Platycypha caligata
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Short description: Species of damselfly
| Platycypha caligata | |
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| teneral male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Chlorocyphidae |
| Genus: | Platycypha |
| Species: | P. caligata
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| Binomial name | |
| Platycypha caligata (Selys, 1853)
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Libellago caligata Selys, 1853 | |
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Platycypha caligata, the dancing jewel, is a species of damselfly in the family Chlorocyphidae. It is found in eastern, central and southern Africa from Ethiopia to Angola and South Africa . Its natural habitats include shady parts of subtropical or tropical streams and rivers in forest, woodland, savanna, and shrubland, and shorelines of lakes.[1]
female, Ithala Game Reserve
Description by Ris (1921)[2]
Males perform remarkable territorial and courtship displays which include flashing their brightly colored legs with flattened tibiae and waving their abdomens.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clausnitzer, V.; Suhling, F.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B. (2016). "Platycypha caligata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T60005A75241796. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60005A75241796.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60005/75241796. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ↑ Ris, Friedrich (1921). "The Odonata or Dragonflies of South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum XVIII: 245–452. http://www.zoology.uct.ac.za/pdf/Ris_1921.pdf. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ↑ Preston-Mafham, Rod; Preston-Mafham, Ken (1993). The encyclopedia of land invertebrate behaviour (1st MIT Press ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 39. ISBN 0262161370. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofla0000pres. Retrieved 1 November 2014. "Platycypha caligata mating."
- ↑ Jennions, M. D. (1998). "Tibial coloration, fluctuating asymmetry and female choice behaviour in the damselfly Platycypha caligata". Animal Behaviour 55 (6): 1517–1528. doi:10.1006/anbe.1997.0656. PMID 9641997.
- ↑ Telford, S.; Barnett, M.; Polakow, Daniel (2005). "The functional significance of tibial displays in the damselfly Platycypha caligata (Selys) (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae)". Journal of Insect Behavior 9 (5): 835–839. doi:10.1007/BF02213559.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1310817 entry
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