{"id":29773,"date":"2025-02-01T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29773"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:14:45","slug":"saffron-reedtail-damselfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saffron-reedtail-damselfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffron Reedtail Damselfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Saffron Reedtail Damselfly Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, two naturalists have spotted the saffron reedtail damselfly for the first time in Karnataka along the Netravati River.<\/p>\n<h2>About Saffron Reedtail Damselfly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is referred to as <strong>Indosticta deccanensis <\/strong>and commonly called saffron reedtail because of the saffron bodies.<\/li>\n<li>This particular species belongs to the <strong>family Platystictidae<\/strong>, commonly <strong>referred to as shadow damselflies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saffron Reedtail Damselfly Appearance: <\/strong>They are slender and delicate insects.<\/li>\n<li>It is a rare species endemic to the <strong>Western Ghats of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Habitat of Saffron Reedtail Damselfly<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are seen in streams surrounded by thick vegetation and usually found near slow-moving forest streams where they rely on pristine water quality for their lifecycle.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to this discovery, the distribution of these damselflies was documented in the southern parts of the Western Ghats (In Kerala and Tamil Nadu)<\/li>\n<li>The presence of them is an indicator of a healthy ecosystem, as they are highly sensitive to environmental changes and pollution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Damselflies?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a group of <strong>predatory, aerial insects<\/strong> that are in the order Odonata.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat of Damselflies:<\/strong> Damselflies are found mainly near <strong>shallow, freshwater habitats<\/strong> and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings.<\/li>\n<li>They are generally smaller, more delicate, and fly weakly in comparison with dragonflies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Saffron Reedtail Damselfly FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1: <\/strong>Where is Western Ghats located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>A chain of mountains running parallel to India&#8217;s western coast, approximately 30-50 km inland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/saffron-reedtail-damselfly-endemic-to-western-ghats-spotted-for-first-time-in-karnataka-in-madhugundi-of-chikkamagaluru\/article69160322.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron Reedtail Damselfly is referred to as Indosticta deccanensis and commonly called saffron reedtail because of the saffron bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}