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Copera vittata

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lateral side of the thorax, peppered with small pale yellow spots. The lateral sides beyond this is yellow, marked with an irregular black stripe on the anterior border of postero-lateral suture, and another one on the middle portion of metepimeron. Abdomen is black on dorsal half up to segment 8; paler on ventral half and with bluish-white basal annules. Segment 9 is black on basal half and bluish-white on apical half. Segment 10 is bluish-white.
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It is a medium-sized damselfly with brown-capped yellow eyes with a narrow equatorial black band encircling them. Its thorax is black on dorsum with a narrow bluish-yellow humeral stripe, split in two and overlap each other. This stripe is followed by a broad black fascia, on the middle of the
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Anal appendages are pale blue or creamy white. The superiors are as long as segment 10, conical, and tapered at apices. The inferiors nearly twice the length of superiors. The inferiors are pale within, blackish-brown externally. In the related species,
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The female is more robust compared to the male, dull in colors and marks less conspicuously defined. Tenerals of both sex can be whole white with few black markings.
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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
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Commonly found in among undergrowth along the banks of rivers and streams, often in the
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Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Zygoptera
Platycnemididae
Copera
Binomial name
Synonyms
damselfly
Platycnemididae
Asia
India
Indonesia
species complex
Copera marginipes
Male anal appendages (Copera vittata)
Male anal appendages (Copera marginipes)
Copera marginipes
hills
List of odonates of India
List of odonata of Kerala

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