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  • Skills: Dragonflies of India

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Esme mudiensis, commonly known as the Travancore bambootail, is a damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats in India, particularly south of the Palakkad Gap.  

  • Description: The Travancore bambootail is a medium-sized damselfly with black-capped blue eyes. Its thorax is velvet-black on the dorsum and azure blue on the sides. The dorsum is marked with narrow ante-humeral blue stripes, and there is another moderately broad black stripe over the postero-lateral suture. The base of the sides is pale blue. The wings are transparent with black and diamond-shaped pterostigma. The abdomen is black, marked with azure blue on segments 1 and 2. Segments 3 to 6 have very narrow baso-dorsal annules, while segments 8 to 10 are blue. There is a narrow black basal annule on segment 8. The ventral borders of all segments are broadly black. The anal appendages are black. The female is similar to the male but has a more robust build.
  • Habitat: This damselfly is usually found along hill streams and is often seen perched on riparian vegetation.

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