New Record of Dragonfly Ictinogomphus angulosus (Selys, 1854) from State Maharashtra, India

摘要

Dragonfliesareveryconspicuousand brightlycolored insects have long, slenderabdomen, commonlyknown as aerial predators, hunting by sight. These are mostly found around the vicinity of freshwaterhabitats like rivers, streams, marshes, lakes and even small pools and rice f ields. As predators it playsan important role in wetland and terrestrial food chains.Dragonflies are reliable indicators of overallecosystem health, and alsogood Biocontrol agents (Andrew , 2008; Tiple , 2013).The order Odonata includes both the dragonflies and damselflies, about 5,952 species andsubspecies of Odonata belonging to 652 generaare documented world-wide (Schorr & Paulson, 2014).The taxonomy of Indian Odonata is well worked out and described for almost all the reported species(Fraser, 1924; 1933; 1934; 1936; Davis & Tobin, 1984; 1985; Prasad & Varshney, 1995). India harbors 474speciesand 50 subspecies belonging to 142 genera in 18 families (Subramanian, 2014).After Fraser (1924, 1933, 1934, 1936) determining work on odonates of India, number of workersstudied odonate fauna of Maharashtra and efforts to added the species list to reach about 130 wherefrom Nagpur city alone 72 species (Mitra 1986; Prasad 1996; Tiple , 2008; Babu ., 2009;Kulkarni , 2012; Tiple 2012a, 2012b; Kulkarni & Subramanian 2013; Talmale & Tiple 2013; Tiple, 2013; Koparde , 2014). This paper adds an additional record of from Nagpur city,Maharashtraalongwith morphometricdetails.