Conservation and Special status
IUCN Red List Category: Not EvaluatedEndemic Status: Endemic to the Western Ghats
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This common species has been recorded so far from Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, and the Western Ghats within the Indian limits. It is endemic to the Western Ghats.
This is a common species.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 2 |
- Joshi, S. and Sawant, D. 2019. Ceriagrion chromothorax sp. nov. (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) from Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 11, 7 (May 2019), 13875–13885. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.4753.11.7.13875-13885.
- Kalkman, V.J., Babu, R., Bedjanic, M., Conniff, K., Gyeltshen, T., Khan, M.K., Subramanian, K.A., Zia, A. & Orr, A.G. (2020). Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Zootaxa, 4849 (1), 001-084. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4849.1.1
Page citation
Sawant, D., A. Dalvi, and S. Bagchi. 2025. Ceriagrion chromothorax Joshi & Sawant, 2019 – Sindhudurg Marsh Dart. In (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. . Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.indianodonata.org/ceriagrion-chromothorax, accessed 2025/12/05.