Onychargia atrocyana
Introduction '''''Onychargia atrocyana''''' a species damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. This species is commonly known as the '''marsh dancer''' or '''black marsh dart'''. It is found in Asia: Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.
Description and habitat It is a medium sized damselfly with velvet-black head, thorax and black-capped brown eyes. The dorsum of the thorax has narrow citron-yellow ante humeral stripes in the sub-adult and teneral stage. The sides are citron-yellow, marked with a broad oblique black stripe over the postero-lateral suture in that stage. But all these marks are obscured by pruinescence in adults. Abdomen is black, unmarked in the adult; but with narrow bluish basal rings on segments 3 to 6.There are yellow marks on the lateral sides of segment 1 and 2 in sub-adults. Female is similar to the sub-adult male with yellow marks. It breeds in ponds and marshes in forests.
See also * List of odonates of India* List of odonata of Kerala
References * Query Results* Singapore Odonata by Tang Hung Bun* Onychargia atrocyana of Borneo
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