A checklist of dragonflies & damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Kerala, India

Authors :: null Sujith V. Gopalan
null Muhamed Sherif
null A. Vivek Chandran
Source :: Journal of Threatened Taxa. 14:20654-20665
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, 2022.
Abstract: A checklist of odonates of Kerala State is presented in this paper. Scientific binomen, vernacular names in Malayalam, IUCN Red List status, and endemism are also given. A total of 174 species of odonates have been recorded from Kerala till date, 65 of which are endemic to the Western Ghats, and 10 to India. Five species fall under various threatened categories of IUCN. None of the odonates occurring in Kerala is listed in the schedules of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act or the appendices of CITES.