Prodasineura doisuthepensis

Scientific name: Prodasineura doisuthepensis Hoess, 2007

Family: Protoneuridae

Thai name: แมลงปอเข็มหางเข็มดอยสุเทพ

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male

Last year (2009) in March, while I was looking for odonates along the stream in Doi Suthep, I found a blue prodasineurid perching on the leaf of aquatic plant. Broad blue synthorax is very eyes-catching. After searching for answer ... finally, it's Prodasineura doisuthepensis! it's described in 2007 and here's a type locality. Now I'm aware that it maybe found in Vietnam. Further expeditions in Vietnam will reveal its distribution in that country.

female is ovipositing with graping male

Male is black with broad blue stripes on front of sythorax. Abdomen is black with small middorsal marking on S-9. S10 is blue dorsally. Caudal appendages are also blue. Female is black with bluish white stripes.

Althought it found only in Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai, I found this species in Petchabun.