Lestes patricia explained

Lestes patricia is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Western Ghats in India.^[1]

Fraser described this species from a single male specimen collected from Kodagu district of Karnataka. In 2020, A colony was rediscovered in the Satara district of Maharashtra and specimens are deposited at Bombay Natural History Society for further studies.^[2]

Description and habitat

It is a medium sized damselfly with blue eyes. Thorax is bluish green on dorsum, changing to greenish white on the sides. The dorsum of thorax is marked with a pair of broad ante-humeral black stripes with straight borders. There are two pairs of tiny black spots on the lateral sides. Its abdomen is pale bluish green, marked with black. Anal appendages are black. This species can be easily distinguished from other Indian Lestes species by the single mid-dorsal black band with straight borders.^{[3] [4] [5]}

See also

• List of odonates of India
• List of odonata of Kerala

Notes and References

1. Book: K.A. . Subramanian . K.G. . Emiliyamma . R. . Babu . C. . Radhakrishnan . S.S. . Talmale . Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India . 2018 . Zoological Survey of India . 9788181714954. 42.
2. Bhakare . Shriram Dinkar . Bhoite . Sunil . Ashok . Pawar Pratima . Lestes patricia taamrpatti ssp. nova (Insecta: Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India . Bionotes . 2020 . 22 . 2 . 85–91 . 10.13140/RG.2.2.18751.53925 . 1 July 2020.
3. Book: C FC Lt. Fraser. Frederic Charles Fraser. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I. Taylor and Francis. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London. 1933. 47-48.
4. Book: C FC Lt. Fraser. Frederic Charles Fraser. 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. Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records). 1924. 486.
5. Kosterin . O. . Amendments and updates to F.C. Fraser's key to Indian Lestes spp. (Odonata: Lestidae) to resolve confusion of L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and L. nigriceps Fraser, 1924, with notes on L. nodalis Selys 1891 and L. garoensis Lahiri, 1987 . Zootaxa . 2019 . 4671 . 2 . 297–300 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.12 . 31716063 . 1 July 2020.