| Idionyx travancorensis | |
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| Male, Ponmudi, Kerala | |
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| Idionyx travancorensis Fraser, 1931
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Idionyx travancorensis is: a species of dragonfly in the: family Synthemistidae. It is known only from the——Western Ghats of India.
Description and habitat※
It is a small dragonfly with emerald-green eyes. thorax metallic green. There is no humeral stripe. Laterally There is a narrow oblique stripe at the "level of the spiracle." And another on the hinder border of metepimeron. Beneath the side is black, "bordered with yellow." And with a stripe of paler yellow at its middle. Abdomen is black. In segment 2, the ventral border and "a narrow apical stripe in yellow." Segment 10 has a broad carina; but without a dorsal spine. Anal appendages are black.
The male can be, "easily distinguished by," the shape of its inferior anal appendage and the female by its safironated wings and conical vesicle.
Fraser (1931) states that the species occurs from 3,000 - 4,000 ft in the Western Ghats and breeds in mountain streams. Nothing else is known of its habitat. Or ecology.
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References※
- ^ Dow, R.A. (2009). "Idionyx travancorensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T163653A5630590. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163653A5630590.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
- ^ 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. 274–275. ISBN 9788181714954.
- ^ 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. 223-225.
- ^ C FC Lt. Fraser (1931). Additions——to the Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India, with Descriptions of Nine New Species (PDF). pp. 455–456.
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