Palpopleura sexmaculata

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Asian widow
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Male

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Libellulidae
Genus:
Palpopleura
Species:
P. sexmaculata
Binomial name
Palpopleura sexmaculata
(Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms
  • Aeshna minuta Fabricius, 1787
  • Palpopleura minuta (Fabricius, 1787)

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]

  • Young male
  • Female

See also[]

  • List of odonates of Sri Lanka
  • List of odonates of India
  • List of odonata of Kerala

References[]

  1. ^ Dow, R.A. (2009). "Palpopleura sexmaculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T163719A5641056. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T163719A5641056.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  4. ^ a b "Palpopleura sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  5. ^ Van der Poorten, N. (2011). Agrion Newsletter of the worldwide dragonfly association, Vol. 15, No. 2
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.

External links[]

Data related to Palpopleura sexmaculata at Wikispecies

Media related to Palpopleura sexmaculata at Wikimedia Commons


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