Anisogomphus ceylonicus Hagen in Selys, 1878
Ceylon clubtail dragonfly, Sri Lanka grappletail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aeshna ceylonica Hagen, 1878; Gomphus ceylonicus Hagen, 1878; Heliogomphus ceylonicus Hagen, 1878; Anisogomphus solitaris Lieftinck, 1971
Conservation Status
Last record: 18 March 1962
Rediscovered in February 2021 (Sumanapala et al., 2022)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Sri Lanka
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hagen in: de Sélys-Longchamps, E. (1878). Quatrièmes additions au synopsis des Gomphines. (section 1) Bulletin de l'Académie royale des Sciences de Belgique (2) 46: 408-471.
Other references:
Bedjanič, M. (2006). Anisogomphus solitaris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T59696A11972735. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T59696A11972735.en. Downloaded on 08 January 2019.
Bedjanič, M. (2009). Heliogomphus ceylonicus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
Bedjanič, M., Conniff, K., van der Poorten, N. and Šalamun, A. (2014). Dragonfly Fauna of Sri Lanka: Distribution and Biology, with Threat Status of its Endemics. Pensoft Publishers. 320 pp. [WARNING: 25.94 MB]
Bedjanič, Matjaž and Poorten, Nancy van der. (2013). On the synonymy of two enigmatic endemic clubtails from Sri Lanka (Anisoptera: Gomphidae). Agrion 17(2): 44-47.
Lieftnick, M. A. (1971). Odonata from Ceylon. Ent. scand. Suppl. 1: 188-207.
van der Poorten, Nancy and Connif, Karen. (2012). The Taxonomy and Conservation Status of the Dragonfly Fauna (Insecta: Odonata) of Sri Lanka, pp. 1-10. In: The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka: Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Weerakoon, D. K. and Wijesundara, S. (eds.). Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka. viii + 476 pp.
Sumanapala, A. P., Ranasinghe, T. and Sumanapala, D. (2022). Rediscovery of Anisogomphus ceylonicus (Odonata: Gomphidae) based on its larva. TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity 11(1): 35-37.