Lestes patricia
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| Lestes patricia | |
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| Male from Satara district, Maharashtra | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Lestidae |
| Genus: | Lestes |
| Species: | L. patricia |
| Binomial name | |
| Lestes patricia Fraser, 1924 | |
Lestes patricia[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Western Ghats in India.[2]
Fraser described this species from a single male specimen collected from Kodagu district of Karnataka.[3] In 2020, A colony was rediscovered in the Satara district of Maharashtra and specimens are deposited at Bombay Natural History Society for further studies.[4]
