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Taxonomy
Idiataphe batesi (Ris, 1913)
Nomenclature
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Family: LibellulidaeGenus: Idiataphe Cowley, 1934
SUMMARY
Face: dark grey, with light greenish blue labrum and lower part of anteclypeus. Head above distinctly dark grey.
Eyes: bright sky blue and light grey below, with some central, grey flecks.
Synthorax: Strongly, weakly or sparsely striped, dark greenish grey and green in young male, to very dark grey and bluish green with pruinescence in lower half in older males.
Wings: clear.
Pterostigmas: dark grey with lighter border, becoming all blackish grey with age.
Abdomen: S1-2 and S7-8 mostly dark grey. S3-6 mostly greenish grey in young male and greenish blue in old male, with dark, dorsal line along length of abdomen. S9-10 heavily pruinescent light grey.
Female: brownish with striped thorax, and unlike male, with very little pruinescence. Outer part and sometimes outer half of pterostigma, very pale.