• Source: Elattoneura souteri
  • Elattoneura souteri is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to Western Ghats in India.


    Description and habitat


    It is a medium sized damselfly with reddish-brown eyes, pale greenish beneath. Its thorax is velvet-black, marked with a broad cherry-red humeral stripe. There is another lateral stripe of citron-yellow in the first lateral suture and cherry-red in anterior follows it. The hinder half of the metepimeron is yellow. Its abdomen is black with red and yellow marks.
    It is found on the banks of submontane streams in Western Ghats, hiding in shaded areas beneath overhanging bamboo, cane or bushes.


    See also


    List of odonates of India
    List of odonata of Kerala


    References




    External links


    Data related to Elattoneura souteri at Wikispecies

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