About Indothemis carnatica (Fabricius, 1798)
Indothemis carnatica is a small dragonfly species. Adults have a dark violaceous or blackish-brown base color, with yellow markings that show through faintly. In fully mature adults, the blackish-brown thorax is covered in pruinescence that gives it a uniform dark violaceous appearance. Young males and females of this species are yellowish. The abdomen is dark violaceous, with yellow markings that show through faintly, and the anal appendages are pale yellow with black tips. Females differ drastically from males in color and markings. In females, the dorsum of the thorax is golden-yellow, while the lateral sides of the thorax are pale greenish-yellow, with a diffuse brown antehumeral stripe. The dorsum of the female abdomen is golden-yellow, fading to greenish-yellow on the lateral sides, and marked with black and reddish-brown. A narrow sub-dorsal stripe runs in a heavily broken pattern from abdominal segment 2 to the tip of the abdomen. A mid-dorsal stripe, black along the carina and brown at its edges, extends from segment 2 to segment 9; this stripe broadens on the terminal abdominal segments, where it merges with the sub-dorsal stripe. Segment 10 of the female abdomen is yellow, with narrow black markings at its base and apical border. Female anal appendages are also pale yellow tipped with black. This dragonfly breeds in ponds and lakes that have abundant weed growth.
