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Rare dragonfly ‘rediscovered’ after 87 years
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Amateur enthusiasts shared pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats.
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Amateur enthusiasts shared pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats.
A dragonfly,
Anaciaeschna martini, commonly known as Martin’s Duskhawker, has been ‘rediscovered’ in the Nilgiris after 87 years.
The rediscovery of the species was published recently in the
Journal of Threatened Taxa, titled ‘Rediscovery of Martin’s Duskhawker from Western Ghats, Peninsular India, with notes on its current distribution and oviposition behaviour.’
Interestingly, the record of this dragonfly in the Nilgiris could have gone completely unnoticed, if not for amateur enthusiasts sharing pictures of the insects they had been documenting in the Western Ghats. Manoj Sethumadhavan, a trustee from the Wynter-Blyth Association, a group of enthusiasts documenting the different s