{"id":61278,"date":"2025-08-30T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61278"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:48:42","slug":"crocothemis-erythraea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/crocothemis-erythraea\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocothemis erythraea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Crocothemis erythraea Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, odonatologists have reconfirmed the presence of the elusive dragonfly species, Crocothemis erythraea, in the high-elevation regions of the southern Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Crocothemis erythraea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a species of <\/span><b>dragonfly in the family Libellulidae.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its common names include <\/span><b>broad scarlet, common scarlet-darter, and scarlet darter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The genus Crocothemis in India includes two known species\u2014<\/span><b>C. servilia and C. erythraea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. While C. servilia is common across lowland areas, C. erythraea is known from <\/span><b>high-elevation habitats in parts of Europe and Asia, including the Himalayas.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The molecular analysis showed that the high-elevation specimens from the Western Ghats match C. erythraea found in <strong>the Himalayas.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The study confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/conservation-and-protection-of-western-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Western Ghats<\/strong><\/a> hosts both the species, C. erythraea, which is restricted to cool, high-elevation habitats (&gt;550 m), while C. servilia is common in lowland habitats (&lt;600 m).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers explain that C. erythraea <\/span><b>colonised southern India during the Pleistocene Ice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Age, when cooler climatic conditions allowed temperate fauna to extend their range southward.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the climate warmed, these populations became stranded in montane locations like the Sholas and grasslands of Munnar and Parambikulam, where they survived in isolation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ice-ages-winged-relic-rediscovered-in-western-ghats\/article69989752.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crocothemis erythraea is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. 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