Aciagrion hisopa

Aciagrion hisopa, is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is abundant in many South Asian countries, but populations in Sri Lanka is still in doubt.

Aciagrion hisopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Family: Coenagrionidae
Genus: Aciagrion
Species:
A. hisopa
Binomial name
Aciagrion hisopa
(Sélys, 1876)
Synonyms
  • Aciagrion aciculare Lieftinck, 1929
  • Aciagrion krishna Fraser, 1921

Fraser considered the specimen found in Western Ghats as Aciargion hisopa race krishna.[1] A recent study revealed that the subspecies krishna found in Western Ghats is not conspecific with A. hisopa and found to be very close to A. approximans found in Northeast India; but differing at the level of subspecies.[2]

Sources
  1. 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.
  2. Shantanu Shrikant Joshi; Oleg Kosterin; Krushnamegh Kunte (2016). "New status for Fraser's forgotten Aciagrion approximans krishna, stat. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) from theWestern Ghats of India". International Journal of Odonatology. 19 (1–2): 41–51. doi:10.1080/13887890.2016.1166463. S2CID 89121135. Retrieved 25 February 2017.


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