''Indolestes pulcherrimus'' is a species of
spreadwing in the
damselfly family
Lestidae.
The species was known only from in
Kodagu district
Kodagu (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State.
It occupies ...
,
Karnataka.
[ Later it is found in forest swamps in Wayanad district, Kerala too.
]
Description and habitat
It is a medium-sized damselfly with blue eyes. Its prothorax is brownish above and bluish on the sides. Its thorax is dark metallic green on dorsum with a narrow blue mid-dorsal stripe. Sides are blue, marked with a large black spot behind the lateral suture, followed by a smaller one in the middle. Wings are transparent with blackish-brown pterostigma
The pterostigma (plural: pterostigmata) is a group of specialized cells in the outer insect wing, wings of insects, which are often thickened or coloured, and thus stand out from other cells. It is particularly noticeable in dragonfly, dragonfli ...
. Abdomen is azure blue on the sides, marked with black on dorsum. The mark on segment 2 looks like a thistle head. Segments 8 is black. The apical half of segment 9 and whole of segment 10 are azure blue.[
Female is similar to the male; differs only in the colors. Segment 8-10 are dark brown.][
File:Indolestes pulcherrimus 6.jpg, male
File:Indolestes pulcherrimus 2.jpg, female
File:Indolestes pulcherrimus 7.jpg, mating pair
File:Indolestes pulcherrimus 3.jpg, anal appendages (male)
]
See also
* List of odonates of India
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* List of odonata of Kerala
References
External links
Lestidae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Insects described in 1924
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