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Common Small Flat

Sarangesa dasahara

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Description:

Though tiny, flies extraordinarily fast but in an erratic and jerky fashion and lands smoothly on the substratum, and that too suddenly. It fight is always close to the ground and has the habit of sometimes returning to the same spot for perching.

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PublishedNovember 3, 2013

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