Biology:Tholymis tillarga

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Short description: Species of dragonfly

Tholymis tillarga
Tholymis tillarga male by kadavoor 01.jpg
male
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female
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Infraorder: Anisoptera
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Tholymis
Species:
T. tillarga
Binomial name
Tholymis tillarga
(Fabricius, 1798)[2]
Tholymis tillarga distribution map.svg
Synonyms
  • Libellula bimaculata Desjardins, 1835
  • Libellula pallida Palisot de Beauvois, 1805
  • Libellula tillarga Fabricius, 1798
  • Tholymis paratillarga Singh & Prasad, 1980

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]

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]

Gallery

  • 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

  • List of odonates of Sri Lanka
  • List of odonates of India
  • List of odonata of Kerala
  • List of Odonata species of Australia

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clausnitzer, V. (2016). "Tholymis tillarga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T60048A83382535. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60048A83382535.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/60048/83382535. Retrieved 20 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ Fabricius, J.C. (1798) (in la). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch. pp. 573 [285]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.65803. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42138781. 
  3. ↑ "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiversity-resources/dragonflies/world-odonata-list2/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Tholymis tillarga Fabricius, 1798". India Biodiversity Portal. http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228442. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Tholymis tillarga Fabricius, 1798". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/639/Tholymis-tillarga. 
  6. ↑ "Species Tholymis tillarga (Fabricius, 1798)". Australian Biological Resources Study. 2012. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Tholymis_tillarga. 
  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. http://serverbau.bio.uniroma1.it/web/html/fragmenta/vol1991/1992p243.pdf. 
  8. ↑ Theischinger, Gunther; Endersby, Ian (2009). Identification Guide to the Australian Odonata. Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW. pp. 239. ISBN 978 1 74232 475 3. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/publications/09730AustOdonata.pdf. 
  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. pp. 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. ↑ 12.0 12.1 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. https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3. 
  13. ↑ C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species. pp. 443-442-443. http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1317887 entry



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