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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Species of damselfly}}<br />
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| image = Pseudagrion malabaricum male.jpg<br />
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| image_caption = male<br />
| image2 = Pseudagrion malabaricum Female.jpg<br />
| image2_caption= female<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Pal, M. |date=2011 |title=''Pseudagrion malabaricum'' |volume=2011 |article-number=e.T167297A6325176 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T167297A6325176.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref><br />
| genus = Pseudagrion<br />
| species = malabaricum<br />
| authority = [[Frederic Charles Fraser|Fraser]], 1924<br />
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'''''Pseudagrion malabaricum''''',<ref name=wol>{{World Odonata List}}</ref><ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /> '''Malabar sprite''', '''jungle grass dart''',<ref name=ibp/> is a species of [[damselflies|damselfly]] in the family [[Coenagrionidae]]. It is found in [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]], and [[Myanmar]].<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name=atlas>{{cite book |last1=K.A. |first1=Subramanian |last2=K.G. |first2=Emiliyamma |last3=R. |first3=Babu |last4=C. |first4=Radhakrishnan |last5=S.S. |first5=Talmale |title=Atlas of Odonata (Insecta) of the Western Ghats, India |date=2018 |publisher=Zoological Survey of India |isbn=978-81-8171-495-4|pages=175–176}}</ref><br />
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==Description and habitat==<br />
It is a medium-sized damselfly with blue eyes, dark on top. Back of the head is black in adults. Its thorax is azure blue with broad black dorsal, medial and humeral stripes. Abdominal segments 1 and 2 are blue with black marks on the dorsum. Mark on segment 2 looks like a [[chalice]] or [[Thistle|thistle-head]]. Segments 3 to 7 are black on dorsum and blue on the sides. Segments 8 and 9 are blue with narrow black apical annules. Segment 10 is black on dorsum and blue on the sides. Superior anal appendages are black, diverging outward, and curving inward on the apices. They are smaller than segment 10; but not as small as those of ''[[Pseudagrion australasiae]]''. Inferiors are very small.<ref name=Fraser/> <br />
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File:Head and thorax of Pseudagrion malabaricum.jpg|Head and thorax<br />
File:Anal appendages of Pseudagrion malabaricum.jpg|Anal appendages<br />
File:Pseudagrion malabaricum tandem position.jpg|Tandem pair<br />
File:Pseudagrion malabaricum mating.jpg|Mating <br />
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Eyes and thorax of the female is bluish green, marked as in the male. Color of the abdomen is similar to the male; but paler. Segments 8 and 9 are also black with fine apical blue rings. Segment 10 is pale blue.<ref name=Fraser/><br />
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It breeds in ponds, lakes, paddy fields and marshes in the [[Montane ecosystems|hills]].<ref name=Fraser>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Odonata Vol. I|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London|year=1933|pages=[https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1/page/n297 284]-286|url=https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1}}</ref><ref name=Fraser-WG>{{cite book|author=C FC Lt. Fraser|author-link=Frederic Charles Fraser|title=A Survey of the Odonate (Dragonfly) Fauna of Western India and Descriptions of Thirty New Species|year=1924|pages=494–495|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/026/05/0423-0522.pdf}}</ref><ref name=ias>{{cite book|last=Subramanian|first=K. A.|title=Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India - A Field Guide|year=2005|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/Publications/Overview/Dragonflies}}</ref><ref name=ibp>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228179|title=Pseudagrion malabaricum Fraser, 1924|publisher=India Biodiversity Portal|access-date=2017-03-06}}</ref><ref name=ifb>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.indianodonata.org/sp/394/Pseudagrion-malabaricum|title=Pseudagrion malabaricum Fraser, 1924|publisher=Odonata of India, v. 1.00. Indian Foundation for Butterflies|access-date=2017-03-06}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of odonates of India]]<br />
* [[List of odonates of Sri Lanka]]<br />
* [[List of odonates of Myanmar]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220175430/http://www.asia-dragonfly.net/globalResults.php?Species=403 Query Results]<br />
* [http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pseudagrion_malabaricum/classification/ Animal Diversity Web]<br />
* [http://biodiversityofsrilanka.blogspot.com/2010/07/malabar-sprite-pseudagrion-malabaricum.html Sri Lanka Biodiversity]<br />
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