| Lestes malabaricus | |
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| Male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Lestidae |
| Genus: | Lestes |
| Species: | L. malabaricus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lestes malabaricus Fraser, 1929
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| Synonyms | |
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Lestes malabarica Fraser, 1929 | |
Lestes malabaricus1 is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Sri Lanka, southern India and the Andaman Islands.234
It looks very similar to Lestes elatus and can only be distinguished by the shape of the superior and inferior anal appendages, and by the absence of the ventro-lateral black spot on the thorax.3
References
References
- "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- 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. 38–39. ISBN 9788181714954.
- 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. pp. 40–43.
- Fraser, F. C. (1929). "Indian dragonflies. Part XXXIV". The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34: 847–848.