Esme cyaneovittata

Esme cyaneovittata[2][1] is damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India, south of Palakkad Gap.[1][3]

Esme cyaneovittata
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Odonata
Family:
Platycnemididae
Genus:
Esme
Species:
E. cyaneovittata
Binomial name
Esme cyaneovittata
Fraser, 1922

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with black-capped blue eyes. Its thorax is velvet-black on dorsum and azure blue on sides. The dorsum is marked with narrow ante-humeral blue stripes. There is another moderately broad black stripe over the postero-lateral suture. The base of the sides are pale blue. Wings are transparent with black pterostigma. Abdomen is black, marked with azure blue on segment 1 and 2. Segments 3 to 7 have very narrow baso-dorsal annules. Segments 8 to 10 are blue. The apical border of 10 and the ventral borders of all segments are broadly black. Anal appendages are black. Female is similar to the male; but more robustly build.[4]

It can be distinguished from Esme mudiensis from its labrum marked with blue. From Esme longistyla, it can be distinguished by its black legs unmarked with blue, by its stout inferior anal appendages, and by the broken blue lateral stripe on the thorax.[4]

It is found along hill streams, commonly found in colonies like those of Caconeura gomphoides.[4][5][6][7]

See also

References
  1. Kakkasery, F. (2011). "Esme cyaneovittata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T175170A7116857.
  2. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
  3. 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. 112–113. ISBN 9788181714954.
  4. 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. 263-264.
  5. 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. 506.
  6. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.
  7. "Esme cyaneovittata Fraser, 1922". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-03-12.

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