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end. Full fed larve comes out of water, breaks the skin dorsally and the
adult emerges. The young adult may differ from the old and the male from
the female. Economically useful, destroying obnoxious insects like
mosquitoes. More common in heavy rainfall tracts like the Konkan and W.
Ghats. Some specics migrate. About 4,500 species described, about 200 in
the Indian region and about 60 in Maharashtra. Divided into 2 sub-orders
—Zygoptera, Anisoptera.
(In the descriptions below in the measurements, Ab = abdomen and
H.W. — hind wing).
Sub-order Zygoptera (टाचणी)