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What is the News?
Black Percher was sighted for the first time in the Seshachalam Hill ranges recently.
What is Black Percher?
Black percher or black ground skimmer (Diplacodes lefebvrii) is a species of dragonfly.
It belongs to the phylum arthropoda, class insecta and order odonata.
Range: It is a very widespread and common species in Africa and southern Eurasia.
In India, it has been sighted in forest locations of Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh. But this appears to be its maiden appearance in the Seshachalam ranges.
Habitat: It is recorded from almost all kinds of well-vegetated freshwater habitats, including seasonal. It is also known to move near forest streams.
IUCN Status: Least Concern
Source: This post is based on the article “Rare insect sighted in Seshachalam” published in The Hindu on 7th Feb 2022.
