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Platylestes platystylus

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having white or pale inner and outer ends. Its abdomen is in olivaceous to warm reddish brown in color with black apical rings on each segments. Anal appendages are whitish with the superiors black at base, curling in at apices to meet each other. Inferior appendages are about half the length and
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Female closely resembles the male in most respects, differing mainly in sexual characters. Anal appendages are yellow, blackish brown at the base, and as long as segment 10.
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white beneath. There are a large number of black spots on the thorax. Its wings are palely smoked with short and broad
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Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2023).
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with white at both ends are the most distinguishing features of this damselfly compared to other
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The small black spots on each side of thorax and quadrate
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It is a small dull colored damselfly of the size of
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Zygoptera
Lestidae
Platylestes
Binomial name
Synonyms
damselfly
family
Lestidae
West Bengal
India
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Thailand
Vietnam
Laos
Kerala
South India

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