Common name: Yellow Striped Blue Dart
Malayalam name: മഞ്ഞവരയൻ പൂത്താലിScientific name: Pseudagrion indicum Fraser, 1924
Family: Coenagrionidae
Place of observation: Thumboor & Pariyaram, Kerala
Date of observation: Various
Male
Abdomen: 34mm
Hind wing: 22mm
Female
Abdomen: 32mm
Hind wing: 22mm
Keys male
Superior anal appendages with a robust curled spine at base; segment 2 with a goblet-shaped marking on the dorsum.
Keys female
The Head and thorax are dark green, with black markings surrounded by an areola of golden yellow. Dorsal marking on segment 2 broad.
(Fraser vol.1 page 303, 304)
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| Teneral female |
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| Male |
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| Teneral male |
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| Teneral female |
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| Male |
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| Old male |
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| Male |
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| Dorsal view |
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| Male |
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| Male |
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| Tandem |
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| Sperm transferring to secondary genetalia |
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| Mating |
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| Mating wheel position |
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| After mating |
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| Searching for a suitable place to ovipositing |
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| Ovipositing underwater with male guarding |
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| Ovipositing in underwater |
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| Ovipositing in underwater |
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| The male guarding the ovipositing female below the underwater |
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