Disparoneura quadrimaculata,[1][2] black-winged bambootail[3][4] is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is a widely distributed species in India.[2][5]
Description and habitat
It is a medium sized damselfly with brick-red eyes, with two horizontal dark-red equatorial lines. Its thorax is bright brick-red on dorsum, paler on the sides. There is black and narrow mid-dorsal carina; a ante-humeral stripe; and a more or less broken but broad humeral-stripe. There is another broader irregular stripe on the mesepimeron, often broken up into two or more spots. There is a short stripe on the antero-lateral suture and a narrow stripe on the postero-lateral suture. The base of the lateral side is pale yellowish-red.[6]
Its wings are transparent; but the fore-wings have a broad blackish-brown fascia, which extends from the node to the pterostigma. The hind-wings have a similar fascia which begins about 5 cells distal to the node and extends to the pterostigma. The pterostigma is bright ochreous, framed in thick black nervures.[6]
Its abdomen is reddish-brown, marked with black. Segment a and segments 7 to 9 are black. Segments 2 to 6 are reddish-brown with broadly black on the apical ends. Segment 10 and anal appendages are pale brown.[6]
Female is more robust with extensive black markings. Its thorax and abdomen are greyish-brown. Abdomen is black on dorsum and with broad apical annules in white followed by black on segments 3 to 7. Segments 3 to 8 have small paired white spots at the base, enclosed in black. Segments 8 to 10 have white marks on dorsum.[6]
They are commonly found along streams and rivers, perches on emergent boulders and aquatic plants. It breeds in hill streams.[6][7][8][3][4]
See also
References
- ↑ Template:World Odonata List
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namediucn - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Disparoneura quadrimaculata Rambur, 1842. India Biodiversity Portal.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Disparoneura quadrimaculata Rambur, 1842. Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.
- ↑ Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Zoological Survey of India(2018). ISBN 9788181714954
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Taylor and Francis(1933)
- ↑ 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{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records)(1924)
- ↑ Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide{{#if:Subramanian|, Subramanian}(2005)