Armageddon Reedtail

About Armageddon Reedtail:

• The species was discovered northeast of Thiruvananthapuram.
• Features: It has a captivating dark brown to black body with vibrant greenish-blue eyes, and half of its eight abdominal segments are marked with delicate pale blue markings.
• Its only habitat is primary montane streams, where it thrives beneath dense canopy cover.
• The name, Armageddon Reedtail, is a direct reference to the concept of “Ecological Armageddon”, a term used to describe the devastating decline of insect populations around the world.
• Threat: This species faces the threat of extinction due to habitat loss and changing environmental conditions.

Key facts about damselfly

• These are insects in the sub-order Zygoptera (meaning “paired-wings”). 
• These are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings.
• These are generally smaller, more delicate, and fly weakly in comparison with dragonflies. 
• Female damselflies normally use a bladelike ovipositor to place eggs inside plant tissue.
• In many species of Damselflies adults change colour as they mature.