Elattoneura tetrica

Elattoneura tetrica,[2][1] black and yellow bambootail[3] is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India.[1][4]

Elattoneura tetrica
male
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Platycnemididae
Genus:
Elattoneura
Species:
E. tetrica
Binomial name
Elattoneura tetrica
(Laidlaw, 1917)
Synonyms
  • Disparoneura tetrica Laidlaw, 1917

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with black-capped pale blue eyes beneath, marked with a black equatorial belt. Its thorax is metallic velvet-black on dorsum. The anterior border of mesepimeron and the lower part of sides are creamy white, separated with a broad stripe in black. The lower part may get pruinosed. Its abdomen is black, pruinosed on the basal segments in adults. Segments 3 to 6 have thin baso-dorsal bluish-white annules. Anal appendages are black.[5]

Female is similar to the male; but paler eyes and dull colored thotax. Teneral males look like the female in colour and markings; adult lose almost all their markings due to pruinescence.[5]

It is closely associated with submontane streams and lakes where it breeds.[5][6][7][3]

See also

References
  1. Kakkasery, F. (2011). "Elattoneura tetrica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T175183A7118694.
  2. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  3. "Elattoneura tetrica Laidlaw, 1917". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. 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. 110–111. ISBN 9788181714954.
  5. 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. 235-236.
  6. C FC Lt. Fraser (1924). A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India with Special Remarks on the Genera Macromia and Idionyx and Descriptions of Thirty New Species (PDF). Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records). p. 503.
  7. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.

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