Idionyx rhinoceroides

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Idionyx rhinoceroides

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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I. rhinoceroides
Binomial name
Idionyx rhinoceroides
Fraser, 1934

Idionyx rhinoceroides

Description

It is a small dragonfly with emerald-green eyes. Its thorax is metallic emerald-green, coated with yellow hairs on dorsum. Humeral stripe is absent. There is a narrow oblique citron-yellow stripe traversing the spiracle and another bordering the lower part of metepimeron. Beneath the side is yellow, with an oblique bluish-black stripe and a triangular blackish-brown spot. Abdomen is black. The ventral borders of segments 2 and 3 are citron-yellow.[4]

This species can be easily distinguished from all other species by the unique shape of its vesicle.[4]

See also

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

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama. Retrieved 14 Mar 2023.
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  4. ^ a b C FC Lt. Fraser (1936). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. III. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 230–231.