Aethriamanta rezia, Kirby, 1889

Kirby, W. F., 1889, Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Odonata in the Collection of the British Museum, chiefly from Africa., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889, pp. 297-303 : 298

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3601017

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3627697

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scientific name

Aethriamanta rezia
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Aethriamanta rezia View in CoL .

Long. corp. 27 millim.; exp. al. 50 millim.; long. pter. 2 millim.

Male. Size, shape, and neuration of the Indian AE. brevipennis, Ramb., except that the sectors of the arculus lise from a short but distinct stalk. The left fore wing has two cross-nervures instead of one in the lower basal cell, and the triangle of the right fore wing is traversed, and that of the left free.

Body reddish above (probably bright red when living), pectus and pleura inclining to green, legs black, femora greenish beneath. Abdomen with the second and third segments carinated; the dorsal carina black on the fourth and following segments. Anal appendages as long as the 8th segment; lower appendage very broad, spatulate.

Wings hyaline; pterostigma olive, between black nervures; hind wings strongly and fore wings slightly tinged with yellow at the base; a dark streak in the lower basal cell, commencing beyond the base, and filling up about two fifths of the length of the cell.

Hab. Madagascar.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Libellulidae

Genus

Aethriamanta

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