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Lestes malabaricus

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Lestes malabaricus
Male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Lestidae
Genus: Lestes
Species:
L. malabaricus
Binomial name
Lestes malabaricus
Fraser, 1929
Synonyms

Lestes malabarica Fraser, 1929

Lestes malabaricus[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Sri Lanka, southern India and the Andaman Islands.[2][3][4]

It looks very similar to Lestes elatus and can only be distinguished by the shape of the superior and inferior anal appendages, and by the absence of the ventro-lateral black spot on the thorax.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  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. 38–39. ISBN 9788181714954.
  3. ^ a b 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. 40–43.
  4. ^ Fraser, F. C. (1929). "Indian dragonflies. Part XXXIV". The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34: 847–848.
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