{"id":344688,"date":"2025-08-18T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344688"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:23:02","slug":"konkan-shadowdamsel-and-crimson-shadowdamsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/konkan-shadowdamsel-and-crimson-shadowdamsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Konkan Shadowdamsel and Crimson Shadowdamsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Two new species of damselflies have been discovered in the Western Ghats by researchers from Maharashtra and Kerala.<\/p>\n<h2>About Konkan Shadowdamsel and Crimson Shadowdamsel<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344689\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-344689\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=397%2C221&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-HT.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-HT.jpg?w=811&amp;ssl=1 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; HT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Both the species belong to the <strong>group<\/strong> commonly called \u2018<strong>Shadowdamsels\u2019<\/strong> because of their <strong>affinity for well-shaded forest habitats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These species are <strong>endemic to Maharashtra<\/strong> and are restricted to small portions of the <strong>hills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Shadowdamsels usually <strong>thrive in pristine habitats<\/strong> with good <strong>canopy cover and small streams<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mistaken identity:<\/strong> Earlier, these two species were reportedly mistaken for the <strong>Red-spot Shadowdamsel (Protosticta sanguinostigma), <\/strong>described over a hundred years ago by British odonatologist F.C. Fraser from the <strong>Nilgiri Hills<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Specifications<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Crimson Shadowdamsel<\/strong> has a <strong>reddish body<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Konkan Shadowdamsel<\/strong> has a <strong>coffee-brown<\/strong> ground colouration.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Red-spot Shadowdamsel<\/strong> is <strong>jet black<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threat level:<\/strong> Their threat level still <strong>needs to be assessed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats: <\/strong>They are currently facing the threat of <strong>extended plantations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecologocal importance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shadowdamsels can act as <strong>indicators of the health of our forests,<\/strong> since they are only seen in <strong>pristine forests<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>pollution indicators<\/strong> as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Note:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The species <strong>Konkan Shadowdamsel<\/strong> is discovered in <strong>Maharashtra\u2019s Sindhudurg district.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The species <strong>Crimson Shadowdamsel<\/strong> (Protosticta sanguinithorax) is discovered in <strong>Kerala\u2019s Thiruvananthapuram district.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Two new species of damselflies have been discovered in the Western Ghats by researchers from Maharashtra and Kerala. About Konkan Shadowdamsel and Crimson Shadowdamsel Both the species belong to the group commonly called \u2018Shadowdamsels\u2019 because of their affinity for well-shaded forest habitats. Habitat These species are endemic to Maharashtra and are restricted to small&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/konkan-shadowdamsel-and-crimson-shadowdamsel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Konkan Shadowdamsel and Crimson Shadowdamsel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-344688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}