Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

An endemic very rare damselfly inhabiting small streams of montane forests and marshlands in the central hills. 

Commonest Shadowdamsel of Sri Lanka occurs from lowlands to mid-hills of southwestern part of the country in both forested steams as wel...

Locally common insect inhabiting streams and rivulets of southwestern and central forested areas from lowlands to mid-hills. It occurs...

An endemic damselfly occurs in small streams and seeps of the montane forests from 1000 to 2000 m elevations. 

Adam's Shadowdamsel  is one of the rarest endemic damselfly so far recorded only from few localities of the  Knuckles range  and its ...

Common endemic damselfly inhabiting small streams in secondary and primary forests as well as the degraded habitats of the central and so...

Very common damselfly occurs in ponds, tanks, marshlands, lagoons, paddy fields, channels,   brackish water and sometimes even in  pollut...

Locally common damselfly confined to the central hills of the island between 1800 and 2500 elevations. It can be found at grassy edges of ...

An endemic and rare damselfly inhabiting streams and rivers from lowland to mid hill forests in southwestern part of the country. 

Rare and critically endangered damselfly so far recorded only from few localities in outskirts of Knuckles range, southern to southe...

An endemic forest damselfly recently described from south-western wet zone forested areas of Sri Lanka. So far it has been recorded onl...

Rather common endemic damselfly found in streams and riverine habitats from lowlands to mid-hills.

Rare endemic insect inhabiting streams in the primary and secondary rain forests.

Widely distributed insect in sub montane and monatane areas in open grass beside weedy ponds and rank herbage (de Fonseka T., 2000). But ...

An endemic forest damselfly inhabiting shady rain forest streams of South-western wet zone from 50 to 500 m altitude. It is currently kno...

An endemic damselfly inhabiting stream habitats of wet zone rain forests. Rather uncommon insect though relatively common than other for...

Drepanosticta anamia is a recently described endemic damselfly inhabiting small to mid-size shaded stream habitats in primary and sec...

Introduction Libellago corbeti ( Ebony Gem)  is an endemic damselfly first identified in July 2007 from two male specimens seen ...

Wandering wisp is one of the smallest damselflies in Sri Lanka. It is very common in paddy fields, marshes, tanks and streams of both wet a...

An uncommon damselfly found in surrounding vegetation of paddy fields, tank edges etc. in wet zone lowlands and lower hills.