Lestes patricia
{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}
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| image = Lestes patricia male-shrirambhakare4.jpg
| image_caption = Male from Satara district, Maharashtra
| genus = Lestes
| species = patricia
| authority = Fraser, 1924
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Lestes patricia{{World Odonata List}} is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Western Ghats in India.{{cite book |last1=K.A. |first1=Subramanian |last2=K.G. |first2=Emiliyamma |last3=R. |first3=Babu |last4=C. |first4=Radhakrishnan |last5=S.S. |first5=Talmale |title=Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India |date=2018 |publisher=Zoological Survey of India |isbn=9788181714954|pages=42}}
Fraser described this species from a single male specimen collected from Kodagu district of Karnataka. In 2020, A colony was rediscovered in the Satara district of Maharashtra and specimens are deposited at Bombay Natural History Society for further studies.{{cite journal |last1=Bhakare |first1=Shriram Dinkar |last2=Bhoite |first2=Sunil |last3=Ashok |first3=Pawar Pratima |title=Lestes patricia taamrpatti ssp. nova (Insecta: Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India |journal=Bionotes |date=2020 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=85–91 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.18751.53925 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342515287 |access-date=1 July 2020}}
Description and habitat
It is a medium sized damselfly with blue eyes. Thorax is bluish green on dorsum, changing to greenish white on the sides. The dorsum of thorax is marked with a pair of broad ante-humeral black stripes with straight borders. There are two pairs of tiny black spots on the lateral sides. Its abdomen is pale bluish green, marked with black. Anal appendages are black. This species can be easily distinguished from other Indian Lestes species by the single mid-dorsal black band with straight borders.{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London|year=1933|pages=[https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1/page/n60 47]-48|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1}}{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India with Special Remarks on the Genera Macromia and Idionyx and Descriptions of Thirty New Species|publisher=Zoological Survey of India. Volumes (Records)|year=1924|pages=486|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}{{cite journal |last1=Kosterin |first1=O. |title=Amendments and updates to F.C. Fraser's key to Indian Lestes spp. (Odonata: Lestidae) to resolve confusion of L. patricia Fraser, 1924 and L. nigriceps Fraser, 1924, with notes on L. nodalis Selys 1891 and L. garoensis Lahiri, 1987 |journal=Zootaxa |date=2019 |volume=4671 |issue=2 |pages=297–300 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.12 |pmid=31716063 |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4671.2.12 |access-date=1 July 2020}}
File:Lestes patricia male-shrirambhakare1.jpg|Male (lateral view)
File:Lestes patricia female-shrirambhakare2.jpg|Female (dorsal view)
File:Lestes patricia female-shrirambhakare1.jpg|Female (lateral view)
File:Lestes patricia male-shrirambhakare5.jpg|Male (marks on thorax)
File:Lestes patricia female-shrirambhakare3.jpg|Female (marks on thorax)
File:Lestes patricia mating-shrirambhakare.jpg|Ovipositing pair
See also
References
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Category:Insects described in 1924
Category:Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser
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