Lestes wallacei
- Dataset
- Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Odonata in the Collection of the British Museum, chiefly from Africa.
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Odonata
- family
- Lestidae
- genus
- Lestes
- species
- Lestes wallacei
description
Exp. al. 55 millim.; long. pter. 2 ½ millim.; long. corp. 46 millim. Female. Head buff, a bronzed spot, shading into green between the ocelli, a black spot on each side of the frontal ocellus, a black stripe before it, and a short stripe bordering the inner orbits; the upper mouth-parts are also almost entirely black. Thorax buff, transverselY striated, with a broad green stripe on each side of the dorsal carina, and a narrower bronzed shoulder-stripe, showing green in certain lights, beneath. Legs buff, clothed with long fine black bristles; femora with a black line beneath; tarsi black. Abdomen buff, bronzed above, except at the sutures. Wings hyaline, slightly clouded at the tips; fore wings with 4 and hind wings with 5 postnodal cross-nervures; pterostigma large, covering 3 or 3 12 / cells.
discussion
Appears to be allied to L. viridula, Ramb., but much larger.
materials_examined
Hab, Sarawak, Borneo (Wallace).
Name
- Homonyms
- Lestes wallacei