{"id":105529,"date":"2026-05-28T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=105529"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:02:42","slug":"gynacantha-khasiaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gynacantha-khasiaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Gynacantha khasiaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Gynacantha khasiaca Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of four citizen scientists recently recorded Gynacantha khasiaca, a rare dragonfly commonly known as the long-tailed duskhawker, from the Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Gynacantha khasiaca<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a rare s<\/span><b>pecies of dragonfly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> commonly known as the<\/span><b> long-tailed duskhawker.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>resurfaced <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the dense rainforests of <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/namdapha-national-park-and-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Namdapha National Park<\/a> and Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first confirmed record <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the dragonfly <\/span><b>from Arunachal Pradesh in 110 years.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was last officially recorded in Arunachal Pradesh in 1914 from the Abor Hills region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Outside India, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the dragonfly has only been reported from scattered locations in <\/span><b>Nepal, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within India, confirmed records remain sparse, with occasional sightings from Assam, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, and Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The male dragonfly was first spotted rapidly patrolling the forest edge on a cloudy morning before <\/span><b>settling into a vertical hanging posture beneath dense vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 <\/span><b>behaviour typical of elusive duskhawker species.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The insect itself is visually striking, with <\/span><b>pale blue-green eyes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a<\/span><b> bright green thorax <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marked by <\/span><b>dark stripes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>transparent amber-tinted wings,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a <\/span><b>long black-tipped abdomen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stretching nearly five centimetres.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, the species is classified as <\/span><b>\u201cData Deficient\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the IUCN Red List.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/arunachal-pradesh\/rare-dragonfly-resurfaces-in-arunachal-after-110-years\/article71028237.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gynacantha khasiaca is a rare species of dragonfly, commonly known as the long-tailed duskhawker. 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