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Common pond damsel

Ceriagrion glabrum

Photo by VincentVanur
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Field Notes

Description:

The males are orange and green coloured whilst the females range from light brown to dark brown depending on their maturity. The darkened colours in females aid in reproduction.

Habitat:

Its natural habitats are rivers, intermittent rivers, marsh lands, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.

Notes:

It is widespread in Africa according to Wikipedia, but this was found in Alathur, Palakkad District, Kerala, India

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