Orthetrum sabina (Drury, 1770)

Babu, R., 2017, Diversity of Odonates (Insecta: Odonata) in Fish farm, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, CSKHPKV, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (4), pp. 367-375 : 371

18. Orthetrum sabina (Drury, 1770)

1770. Libellula sabina Drury, III. Exot. Ins ., 1: 114.

1889. Orthetrum sabina Kirby, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond., 12: 302.

1936. Orthetrum sabina, Fraser, Fauna Brit. India, Odonata , 3: 300-302.

Material examined: 4♂, 14-iv-2006; 2♂ 1♀, 16-iv-2006;

13♂ 4♀ (4 pairs in copula), 29-ix-2007.

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Chad, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Micronesia (Federated States of), Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan (Province of China), Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen.