Indolestes davenporti

Indolestes davenporti
Male, Kerala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Lestidae
Genus: Indolestes
Species: I. davenporti
Binomial name
Indolestes davenporti
(Fraser, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Ceylonolestes davenporti Fraser, 1930
  • Indolestes gracilis davenporti (Fraser, 1930)

Indolestes davenporti[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is known only from Western Ghats, south of Palakkad Gap.[2]

Fraser described this damselfly in 1930 as Ceylonolestes davenporti.[3] Later it was considered as a subspecies of Indolestes gracilis. Kimmins re-evaluated it as a good species, Indolestes davenporti.[4][1][2]

Habitat

Indolestes davenporti is found south of the Palakkad Gap, from 4,000 to 6,000 feet in Western Ghats. It is found around grassy edges of ponds, streams and marshes in the hills.[3][5][6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  2. 1 2 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. 32–33. ISBN 9788181714954.
  3. 1 2 Fraser, F. C. (1930). "Indian dragonflies. Part XXV". The journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34: 96–97.
  4. ↑ Kimmins (1966). "Lestes (Indolestes) davenporti". Bull. Brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.). 18: 188.
  5. ↑ 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. 69–71.
  6. ↑ Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.

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