Protosticta ponmudiensis

Protosticta ponmudiensis,[1][2] Travancore reedtail,[3] is a damselfly species in the family Platystictidae. It is endemic to southern Western Ghats in India.[4] It is named after the type locality (Ponmudi), a hill station near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, where the species was discovered.[2]

Protosticta ponmudiensis
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Family:	Platystictidae
Genus:	Protosticta
Species:	P. ponmudiensis
Binomial name
Protosticta ponmudiensis Kiran, Kalesh & Kunte, 2015

The genus Protosticta has eleven species reported from the India, of which nine are known from Western Ghats.[5][6]

This species was found in 2013 from the Ponmudi, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala which is part of Agasthyamalai region of the southern Western Ghats. It was perched on a dry climber approximately 1.5m above the ground inside the shaded parts of the stream. It was found near slow flowing hill streams and brooks. It shares the habitat with other Protosticta gravelyi and Protosticta davenporti, and with other odonates, Caconeura species, Euphaea fraseri, Idionyx saffronata and Heliogomphus promelas. This species can be distinguished from other Protosticta based on its large size, bright green eyes, the broad dorsal stripe on the base of segment 7, and very distinct anal appendages.[2][3]

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  Head (male)
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  Eyes (male)
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  Terminal abdominal segments
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  Anal appendages (male)
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  Wings (male)

See also

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

References

1. Martin Schorr; Dennis Paulson. "World Odonata List". University of Puget Sound. Retrieved 12 Oct 2018.
2. C.G. Kiran, S. Kalesh & Krushnamegh Kunte (2015). "A new species of damselfly, Protosticta ponmudiensis (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from Ponmudi Hills in the Western Ghats of India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 7 (5): 7146–7151. doi:10.11609/jott.o4145.7146-51. Retrieved 2017-03-14.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
3. "Protosticta ponmudiensis Kiran, Kalesh & Kunte 2015 – Travancore Reedtail". Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
4. 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. 60–61. ISBN 9788181714954.
5. 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.
6. Subramanian, K. A. (2005). Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide.

External links

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