Palpopleura sexmaculata
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Palpopleura sexmaculata,[2] commonly known as the Asian widow or blue-tailed yellow skimmer,[3][4] is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is widespread in several countries in South, East and Southeast Asia, but is no longer believed to occur in Sri Lanka.[5][6]
Description and habitat
It is a small dragonfly with brown capped greenish eyes. Its thorax is greenish yellow and hind-wings usually tinted with yellow from the base. Pterostigma is black in adults bi-colored in juveniles and sub-adults as in females. Its abdomen is pruinosed with light blue, leaving segments 1-3 as yellow. Sub-adult males and females are yellow. The pterostigma of the female are bi-colored with half black and half yellow. It breeds in marshy areas and small pools in the hills.[7][8][3][4]
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See also
References
- ^ Dow, R.A. (2009). "Palpopleura sexmaculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T163719A5641056.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
- ^ a b "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
- ^ Van der Poorten, N. (2011). Agrion Newsletter of the worldwide dragonfly association, Vol. 15, No. 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. 363–364. 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. 318-320.
- ^ C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species (PDF). pp. 433–434.
- sexmaculata.html World Dragonflies[permanent dead link]
- Animal diversity web
- Query Results
- Sri Lanka Biodiversity
External links
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