Elattoneura tetrica,[1][2] black and yellow bambootail[3] is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India.[2][4]
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
- ↑ Template:World Odonata List
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namediucn - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Elattoneura tetrica Laidlaw, 1917. India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ↑ Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Zoological Survey of India(2018). ISBN 9788181714954
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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)