Summary
This is the first new member of the Lestes group found there in almost a hundred years.
Key Points
3 points1
New damselfly species identified.
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Location: Western Ghats, Kerala, India.
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First Lestes discovery in the area since 1929.
New Words to Learn
6 wordsdamselfly
a small insect that looks like a skinny dragonfly and lives near water
species
a type of living thing that is similar and can have babies together
Western Ghats
a long chain of mountains in southern India
Lestes
the scientific name for a family of damselflies
Kerala
a state on the southwestern coast of India
discovered
found for the first time
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