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Drepanosticta montana Hagen in Selys, 1860

Mountain forest damselfy

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Platysticta montana Hagen in Selys, 1860

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in May 2009

IUCN status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Hagen in: de Selys Longchamps, E. (1860). Synopsis des Agrionines. Dernière légion: Protoneura. Bulletin de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Série 2): 10 (9-10): 431-462.


Other references:

Bedjanič, M. (2006). Drepanosticta montana. 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]

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.

 

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