| Lestes patricia | |
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| Male from Satara district, Maharashtra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Lestidae |
| Genus: | Lestes |
| Species: | L. patricia
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| Binomial name | |
| Lestes patricia Fraser, 1924
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Lestes patricia[1] is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae. It is native to Western Ghats in India.[2]
Fraser described this species from a single male specimen collected from Kodagu district of Karnataka.[3] In 2020, A colony was rediscovered in the Satara district of Maharashtra and specimens are deposited at Bombay Natural History Society for further studies.[4]
- ^ Paulson, D.; Schorr, M.; Abbott, J.; Bota-Sierra, C.; Deliry, C.; Dijkstra, K.-D.; Lozano, F. (2024). "World Odonata List". OdonataCentral, University of Alabama.
- ^ K.A., Subramanian; K.G., Emiliyamma; R., Babu; C., Radhakrishnan; S.S., Talmale (2018). Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India. Zoological Survey of India. p. 42. ISBN 9788181714954.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Fraserwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bhakare, Shriram Dinkar; Bhoite, Sunil; Ashok, Pawar Pratima (2020). "Lestes patricia taamrpatti ssp. nova (Insecta: Odonata: Lestidae) from Maharashtra, India". Bionotes. 22 (2): 85–91. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.18751.53925. Retrieved 1 July 2020.