Amanipodagrion

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Amanipodagrion
Distribution of the species Amanipodagrion gilliesi

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Zygoptera
Superfamily: Calopterygoidea
Family: Amanipodagrionidae
Genus: Amanipodagrion
Pinhey, 1962
Species:
A. gilliesi
Binomial name
Amanipodagrion gilliesi
Pinhey, 1962

Amanipodagrion gilliesi is a

flatwing damselfly family (Megapodagrionidae). As a result of molecular phylogenetic studies by Bybee et al. in 2021, it is now in its own family, Amanipodagrionidae.[2][3]

This species is commonly known as the Amani flatwing.

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Description

The Amani flatwing has a long, extremely slender abdomen, which is darkly coloured with a conspicuous white tip. Its wings are distinctly narrower at their base than at their tip, and the males have a broad brown band close to their wing tips.[4]

Range

It is endemic to the Amani Sigi Forest of the East Usambara Mountains from Tanzania. The Amani flatwing population appears to be largely confined to a 500 meter long stream in the Amani-Sigi Forest Reserve, although a single male has been found outside of this reserve.[1]

Habitat

Adult damselflies occur along clear, fast-running streams that are heavily shaded by closed canopy vegetation. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.[4]

Threats

Amanipodagrion gilliesi is now

extinction as a result of human encroachment, deforestation and water pollution. Also, the protected population of Amani flatwings leads a relatively precarious existence, containing fewer than an estimated 250 mature individuals.[1]

Conservation

The stream around which the one remaining viable population lives is protected within the forest reserve in the East Usambara Conservation Area, and is therefore relatively safe from any danger.[4] Any changes to this stream could result in the extinction of Amanipodagrion gilliesi. It has been advocated that an extensive survey of the whole area is urgently needed to locate any further remaining populations. This species is very close to becoming extinct. Dragonflies and damselflies can't survive well in captivity.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T984A13100344.en
    . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Seth M. Bybee et al. (2021) Phylogeny and classification of Odonata using targeted genomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 160: 1-15
  3. ^ "World Odonata List". Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound. 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Amani flatwing – Amanipodagrion gilliesi". ARKive. Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 31 January 2014.

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