Elattoneura tetrica
Species of damselfly
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Elattoneura tetrica,[2][1] the black and yellow bambootail,[3] is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India.[1][4]
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| Elattoneura tetrica | |
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| Male | |
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| Female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Platycnemididae |
| Genus: | Elattoneura |
| Species: | E. tetrica |
| Binomial name | |
| Elattoneura tetrica (Laidlaw, 1917) | |
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Description and habitat
It is a medium sized damselfly with black-capped pale blue eyes beneath, marked with a black equatorial belt. Its thorax is metallic velvet-black on dorsum. The anterior border of mesepimeron and the lower part of sides are creamy white, separated with a broad stripe in black. The lower part may get pruinosed. Its abdomen is black, pruinosed on the basal segments in adults. Segments 3 to 6 have thin baso-dorsal bluish-white annules. Anal appendages are black.[5]
Female is similar to the male; but paler eyes and dull colored thotax. Teneral males look like the female in colour and markings; adult lose almost all their markings due to pruinescence.[5]
It is closely associated with submontane streams and lakes where it breeds.[5][6][7][3]
