Hylaeothemis indica

Hylaeothemis indica
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Hylaeothemis
Species: H. indica
Binomial name
Hylaeothemis indica
Fraser, 1946

Hylaeothemis indica[2] is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae, endemic to India.[1][3]

The species is found in small colonies closely associated with forested marshes. It breeds in the seepage from marshes along the banks of mountain streams and usually found resting on the foliage beside streams.[4][5]

Fraser described Hylaeothemis indica from specimens from the Western Ghats of India.[6] Previously this species has been treated as H. fruhstorferi; a species probably actually confined to Sri Lanka.[1][7] Fraser had also described a subspecies Hyaleothemis fruhstorferi apicalis in 1924[8] which may be a synonym of this.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dow, R.A. (2009). "Hylaeothemis indica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2009: e.T163699A5637863. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  3. ↑ 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. 328–329. ISBN 9788181714954.
  4. ↑ "Hylaeothemis indica Fraser, 1946". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  5. ↑ "Hylaeothemis indica Fraser, 1946". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  6. ↑ Fraser, F. C. (1946). "Hylaeothemis indica, a new species of oriental libelluline (order Odonata)". Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 15 (7/8): 97–100.
  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. 261–262.
  8. ↑ C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species (PDF). p. 430.
  9. ↑ Kimmins, D. E. (1966). "A list of the Odonata types described by F. C. Fraser, now in the British Museum (Natural History)". Bulletin of the British Museum. 18: 196–197. Retrieved 10 October 2018.


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