Platylestes platystylus

Platylestes platystylus[2][1] is a damselfly species in the family Lestidae. Although this species appears to be widespread, there are very few recent records. This species is known from old records from West Bengal in India, Myanmar (Fraser 1933),[3] Thailand (Hämäläinen and Pinratana 1999) and Laos (Yokoi 2001).[1] There are recent records from Thailand,[4] Vietnam,[5] Laos[6] and Kerala, South India.[7]

Platylestes platystylus
male
female

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Lestidae
Genus:
Platylestes
Species:
P. platystylus
Binomial name
Platylestes platystylus
(Rambur, 1842)
Synonyms

Lestes platystyla Rambur, 1842

Description and habitat

It is a small dull colored dragonfly 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.[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.[3]

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.[3]

See also
  • List of odonates of India
  • List of odonata of Kerala

References
  1. Sharma, G. (2010). "Platylestes platystylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T167261A6319472.
  2. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. Farrell, Dennis (2015-07-13). "Platylestes platystylus (Rambur, 1842)". Dragonflies & damselflies of Thailand. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  5. Kompier, Tom (2016-07-22). "Platylestes platystylus - also in Vietnam". Dragonflies and damselflies of Vietnam. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  6. N., Yokoi; V., Souphanthong (2014). A List of Lao Dragonfliles. Koriyama: Kyoei Printing Co Ltd. p. 110.
  7. See photographs in c:Category:Platylestes platystylus

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