New species of damselfly uncovered from Western Ghats | Way of life News

Thrissur: A new species of Damselfly has been found and explained from the Western Ghats of Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary in Thrissur, Kerala. The species is scientifically Protosticta anamalaica Sadasivan, Nair and Samuel, 2022 and has been named The Anamalai Reed-tail. This extraordinary discovery has been built by Dr Kalesh Sadasivan, Vinayan P Nair and Dr Abraham Samuel, researchers of the Travancore Nature History Society, a investigate business based mostly in Thiruvananthapuram, with support from Peechi Wildlife Division led by Prabhu PM, Wildlife Warden, Mr. Anish Asst. Wildlife Warden, and Salish JM Wildlife Assistant. The species was very first spotted through the A 4-day butterfly study of the Peechi Wildlife Division led by the Kerala Forest Section and Travancore Mother nature Record Modern society (TNHS) Thiruvananthapuram through 25-28 November 2021.

The genus Protosticta Sels, 1885 is made up of slender created damselflies commonly acknowledged as Reed-tails or Shadow-damsels. They inhabit hill streams in tropical, subtropical, and temperate jungles of the Indian subcontinent and south-jap Asia. In India, they are distributed in the Western Ghats and north-jap location towards Myanmar. The genus was described from Sulawesi (previously the Celbes) in Indonesia. The genus has 53 extant species distributed from Pakistan, by way of the Indian subcontinent to Indo-China and south-jap Asian islands. There are 15 species of Protosticta in the Indian region and 12 of them inhabit the Western Ghats.