Abdominal segments of a Female Rhinocypha humeralis
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Damselflies of Borneo > Family Chlorocyphidae 鼻蟌科/鼓蟌科 > Genus Rhinocypha > Female Rhinocypha humeralis
Family: Chlorocyphidae
Genus: Rhinocypha
Rhinocypha humeralis
Rhinocypha humeralis is a rear species of damselfly. In Asia, it was see only in Philippine, Indonesia and Malaysia
Abdominal segments of a Female Rhinocypha humeralis
Female damselflies (and some dragonflies) have well-developed ovipositors
used to insert eggs into plant tissue.
(some dragonflies the ovipositor valves are reduced, and eggs are dropped into
water)
Both male and female have caudal appendages at last segment of the abdomen
(segment 10), which in males work like claspers to grasp the female during
mating.
A young mature female Rhinocypha humeralis (golden colour) before oviposition.
An aging female Rhinocypha humeralis (bluish colour) after oviposition.
| A young female Rhinocypha humeralis | An aging female Rhinocypha humeralis |
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| Taken on 29th October 2006 in Sabah, Malaysia. |
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| 5 November 2006 |
When a female Rhinocypha humeralis is still young, her color is coffee body with light yellow marking. When looking at a distance under direct sunlight, it mixture of coffee and yellow give you an illusion of golden color.
After oviposition and as the female aged, her light yellow color gradually turn
light blue. This make her look similar to a blue male as image below,
A matured male Rhinocypha humeralis is blue in color
An aging female Rhinocypha humeralis turning blue color after oviposition
Out of the global 10 families of damselflies, the following 6 families are found in Borneo Island :
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01- Family Calopterygidae 色蟌科 02- Family Chlorocyphidae 鼻蟌科 03- Family Coenagrionidae 細蟌科 04- Family Euphaeidae 溪蟌科 05- Family Lestidae 絲蟌科 06- Family Protoneuridae 原蟌科 |
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